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THE GEOLOGICAL CURATOR VOLUME 6, No.5

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TYPE, FIGURED AND CITED SPECIMENS IN THE MUSEUM OF ISLE OF WIGHT GEOLOGY (ISLE OF WIGHT, ENGLAND).

by J.D. Radley ............................ ............ ....................................................................................................................... 187

THE WORTHEN COLLECTION OF PALAEOZOIC VERTEBRATES AT THE ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM by R.L. Leary and S. Turner ...................... ... ........................................................................................................ 195

LOST AND FOUND ...................................................................................................................................................... 207

DOOK REVIEWS ........................................................................................ ........... ...................................................... 209

................................................. GEOLOGICAL CURATORS' GROUP . 21ST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 213

GEOLOGICAL CURATORS' GROUP -April 1996

TYPE, FIGURED AND CITED SPECIMENS IN THE MUSEUM OF ISLE OF WIGHT GEOLOGY (ISLE OF WIGHT, ENGLAND)

by Jonathan D. Radley

Radley, J.D. 1996. Type. Figured and Cited Specimens in the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology (Isle of Wight, England). The Geological Curator 6(5): 187-193.

Type, figured and cited specimens in the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology are listed, as aconseouence of arecent collection survev and subseauentdocumentation work. Strengths .. currently lie in Palaeogene gas tropods, and Lower Cretaceous invertebrates and vertebrates in general. It is anticipated that further specmens belonging to these categories will be established as status material in the near future, given prevailing research interests in the collection.

Jonalhon D Radley. (;eolog) Department, Br~srolCir) Mureutn and Art Gallery, Queen's Road. Br.srol 11.5'8 IRL . U K . Receiied 3 r d N o r e d e r 1995; revised version received 13th January 1996.

Introduction From the late 1940s until 1974, the Sandown and Shanklin Urban District Council employed honorary

The Of Isle Of originated custodians to care for the collections. Since 1974, the through the activities ofthelsleof Wight Philosophical collections have been the responsibility of geological Society,whichwasestablishedin ~ ~ k ~ ~ ~ h e l d meetings curators, employed by thelsleof WightCounty Council in the county town of Newport. Society mcmbers and now reorganised as the Isle of Wight Council accumulated items of archaeological and natural (Radley 1993a). historical interest, and these collections formed the basis of the first Isle of Wight Museum, founded at Newport Guildhall in 1852 (Norman 1887, p.224). Through the efforts of the honorary curator, Mr Emest Wilkins, public awareness resulted in furthergrowth of the collection and the Museum was relocated twice before public interest started to fade after the death of Mr Wilkins in 1881.

Soon after, the Newport Literary Society took custody of the collections which were ullimately housed in a newNewportMuseum at Quay Strcet, Newport(Norman 1887, p. 224). Some time prior to 1887, the geology display was arranged by MrHenry Keeping, who was in theemployment ofAdam Sedgwickatthe Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge (R'ickards 1979).

Levels of public interest in the new museum were low and by about 1905 most of the collection had been put into storage (Anon. 1910). In 1913, Mr Frank Morey arranged the removal of the geological collections to a room above the Free Library in Sandown (Jackson 1943). This was opened as a public museum in 1914, although work oil the displays was not completed until 1923. Mr James Frederick Jackson came to Lhe Island as Morey's assistant in 1924 and was curator of the Sandown Museum from 1925 to 1943 (Howe 1994).

Thecollections almostwholly compriselocally collected Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils and sedimentary rock samples. J.F. Jackson, in particular, amassed a large number of Cretaceous and Palaeogene invertebrates. The collections of G.T. Woods and H.F. Poole were presented in 1938, and include Wealden reptile remains and otherLowerCretaceousfossils. The W.J.P.Burton bequest was accessioned in 1940 and largely comprises Palaeogene fossils, especially molluscs. Important collections of fossil vertebrates accessioned since the 1970s include those of Steve Hutt andKeith Simmonds (Wealden rcptiles), and Andy Yule (Palaeogene reptiles).

Theonly existingpublished catalogues are those of J.F. Jackson(1925,1928,1929,1930a, 1930b, 1933.1938). These works comprisestratigraphically-ordered faunal lists, and are extremely useful in the context of stratigraphic palaeontology. Jackson omitted corresponding accession numbers in these and other papers (listed by Howe 1994), but the tabulated taxa can nevertheless sometimes be matched to specimens in the present collection. Such accessions are not included in the prcsent list, but certainly deserve future documentation and publication.

due for publication in 1996 and are recorded where appropriate.

Figure 1. Chironomid midge (preserved in amber). IWCMS:1994.100. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Lower Cretaceous. Brightstone Bay, Isle of Wight. Wingspan: 2.9 mm. (Photograph by Peter Austen).

This catalogue provides a list of the type, figured and cited specimens that I encountered during a collection survey in 1993-94, and in subsequent documentation work. Given the importance of status specimens (Crowther 1990) and my impending move to a new post, I considered it judicious to publish at the present time.

Some of the listed specimens probably correspond to undetected citations of illustrations in the scientific literature. Specifically, recently published "popular" dinosaur texts may provide some records and I would urge current and future curatorial staff and volunteers of the Museum to make note of such records, as and when they are encountercd. In addition, like Jackson's specimens (see above)numerousunnumbered citations exist in recent literature, which could be linked to museum holdings with a little work. If readers know of additional citations, I would be extremely grateful if they could contact me, or staff of theMuseum of Isle of Wight Geology.

A significant numbcr of Museum specimens have been recently listed in an unpublished thesis (Clarke 1993, appendix 1) and some of thcse have been subscquently cited and figured inseveral publications (noted herein). Similarly,Museum holdings will featurein postgraduate theses resulting from research currently (1996) being undertaken by Steve Hutt (Curator of the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology), Martin Munt (University of Portsmouth) and myself.

Stratigraphic terminology used herein is summarised by Radley (1994~) for thc Lower Cretaceous, and Daley and Insole (1984) for the Upper Cretaceous and Palaeogene.

Thecollectionbears twoprefix codes: MIWG (Museum of Isle of Wight Geology: old system) and IWCMS (Isle of Wight County Museums Service: MDA code, 1994 onwards). Some citations correspond to papers currently (January 1996) in press. These works are all

Type, F igured and Ci ted Specimens

Lower Cretaceous Bivalves

Prohinnites favrinus (Pictet and Roux), MIWG 145 (collector: J.F. Jackson), cited. Lower Gryphaea Beds, Ferruginous Sands Formation, Lower Greensand Group, Isle of Wight.

Harper, Radley and Palmer 1996 (in press).

Prohinnites favrinus (Pictet and Roux), MIWG 7176 (collector: J.D. Radley), cited. Perna Beds Member, Atherfield Clay Formation, Lower Greensand Group, Redcliff, Isle of Wight.


Prohinnites favrinus (Pictet and Roux), IWCMS: 1994.20 (collector: J.D. Radley), cited. Perna Beds Member, Atherfield Clay Formation, Lower Greensand Group, Redcliff, Isle of Wight.


Prohinnites favrinus (Pictet and Roux), IWCMS: 1994. 137 (collector: J.D. Radley), cited. Perna Beds Member, Atherfield Clay Formation, Lower Grecnsand Group, Redcliff, Isle of Wight.


Prohinnites favrinus (Pictet and Roux), IWCMS: 1995. 222 (collector: J.D. Radley), cited. Perna Beds Member, Atherfield Clay Formation, Lower Greensand Group, Redcliff, Isle of Wight.


Upper Cretaceous Bivalves

Durania mortoni (Mantell), MIWG 5055 (collector: F. Mew), cited. Glauconitic Marl, Lower Chalk, the Undercliff (coast between Luccombe and St. Catherine's Point), Isle of Wight.

Radley 199 1, p. 148.

Durania mortoni (Mantell), MIWG 6675 (collected by the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society), cited. Chalk M a l , Lower Chalk, approximately 600m west- north-west of Compton Chine, Isle of Wight.

Radley 1991, p. 148.

Lower Cretaceous Gastropods

Viviparus fluviorum (J. Sowerby non de Montfort), MIWG 6685 (collector: P. Newbery), figured. Wessex Formation (Bed 10 of Radley 1994b), Wealden Group, Yaverland foreshore, Isle of Wight

Radley 19936, plsl-2.

Viviparusfluviorum (J. Sowcrby non de Montfort), MIWG 6709 (collcclor: J.D. Radley), figured. Wessex Formation (Bed 10 of Radley 1994b), Wealden Group, Yaverland foreshore, Isle of Wight.

Radley 19936, plsl-2.

Palaeogene Gastropods

Colwelliaflexuosa (Edwards), MIWG 4778 (W.J.P. Burton bequest), cited. Venus bed, Colwell Bay Member, Headon Hill Formation, Solent Group, Colwell Bay, Isle of Wight.

Nuttall and Cooper 1973, p. 210 (MIWG 748, ex-Newport Museum, also cited but unlocated in stores).

Pseudocominella solanderi (Cossmann), MIWG 1084 (collector: probably F. Morey or J.F. Jackson), cited. Barton Clay, Barton Beds, Alum Bay, Isle of Wight.

Nuttall and Cooper 1973, p. 199.

Pseudocominella solanderi (Cossmann), MIWG 4720 (probably W.J.P. Burton bequest) cited. Barton Clay, Barton Beds, Alum Bay, Isle of Wight.


Pseudocominella deserta (Solander), MIWG 3554 (collector: probably J.F. Jackson), cited. Barton Clay, Barton Beds, Alum Bay, Islc of Wight.


Pseudocominella semicostafa Nultall and Cooper, MIWG 1930 (collector: probably J.F. Jackson), paratype. Brockenhurst bed, Colwell Bay Membcr, Headon Hill Formation, Solent Group, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight.


Sandbergeria vectiana. Munt and Barker, IWCMS: 1995. 254.2 (collector: M. Munt), holotype. Corbula beds, Cranmore Member, Bouldnor Formation, Solent Group, Cranmore, Isle of Wight.

Munt and Barker 1996 (in press).

Sandbergeria vectiana Munt and Barker, IWCMS:1995.254.1 (collector: M. Munt), paratypc. Corbula bcds, Cranmore Mcmber, Bouldnor Formation, Solent Group, Cranmore, Islc of Wight.

Munt and Barkcr 1996 (in press).

Slrebloceras cornuoides Carpenter, IWCMS: 1995.254.6 (collector: M. Munt), figured. Corbula bcds, Cranmorc Mcmber, Bouldnor Formation, Solent Group, Cranmore, Isle of Wight.


P usillina tubrinata Leach, IWCMS:1995.2551 (collector: M. Munt), figured. Corbula Beds, Cranmore Member, Bouldnor Formation, Solent Gorup, Cranmore, Isle of Wight.

Munt and Barker 1996 (in prcss).

IIydrobia sp., IWCMS:1995.255.2 (collector: M. Munt), figured. Corbula beds, Cranmore Membcr, Bouldnor Formation, Solent Group, Cranmorc, Isle of Wight.


Teinosloma decussatum Sandberger, IWCMS:1995.255.6 (collector: M. Munt), figured. Corbula beds, Cranmore Membcr, Bouldnor Formation, Solent Group, Cranmore, Islc of Wight.


Teinostoma decussatum Sandberger, IWCMS: 1995.255.7 (collector: M. Munt), figurd. Corbula beds, Cranmore Member, Bouldnor Formation, Solent Group, Cranmore, Isle of Wight.


Syrnola sp. IWCMS: 1995.255.4 (collector: M. Munt), figured. Corbula beds, Cranmore Member. Bouldnor Formation, Solent Group, Cranmore, Isle of Wight.


Lower Cretaceous Ammonites

Prodeshayesites obsoletus Casey, MIWG 88 (ex Newport Museum), figured. Perna beds Member, Atherfield Clay Formation, Lower Greensand Group, Atherfield Point, Isle of Wight.

Casey 1961a, pl, 82, fig. 3.

Roloboceras hambrovi (Forbes), MIWG 3899 (collector: G.T. Woods), figured and cited. Crackers Membcr, Atherfield Clay Formation, Lower Greensand Group, Atherfield, Isle of Wight.

Cascy 19616, pl. 29, figs 5a, b; p. 178, p. 180.

Sonneratia caperafa Casey, MIWG 4461 (collector: G.R. Hayncs), holotype. Carstone Formation, Lower Greensand Group, Reeth Bay, Isle of Wight.

Casey 1965, pl. 87, figs 2a, b; p. 537.

Sonneratia rotator Casey, MIWG 4670 (collector: G.R. Haynes), figured and cited. Carstone Formation, Lower Greensand Group, Reeth Bay, Isle of Wight. Casey 1965, pl. 89, figs 4a, b; p. 525.

Sonneratia kitchini Spath var. chalensis Casey, MIWG 4388 (collector: H.F, F. Poole), holotype of variety. Carstone Formation, Lower Greensand Group, Recth Bay, Isle of Wight.

Cascy 1965, pl. 89, fig. 6; p. 523.

Lower Cretaceous Insects

Colcopteran elytron, MIWG 7087 (collector: R.J. Twitchett), figured. Shcphcrd's Chinc Member, Vectis Formation, Wealden Group, beach west of Cowlcaze Chine, Isle of Wight.

Twitchett 1994, fig. 3a.

Coleopteran elyuon, MIWG 6672 (collector: B. Jarzembowski), cited. ? Shepherd's Chinc Mcmber, Vectis Formation, Wealden Group, forcshore near Shippards Chine, Isle of Wight.

Twitcheu 1994, p. 48.

Coleopteran clyuon, MIWG 7285 (collector: E.A. Jarzcmbowski), cited. Shepherd's Chine Mcmber, Vectis Formation, Wcalden Group, Shepherd's Chine, Isle of Wight.

Twitcheu 1994, p. 49.

Blattodean forewing, MIWG 7085 (collector: R.J. Twitchett), figured. Shepherd's Chine Member, Vectis Formation, Wealden Group, beach west of Cowleaze Chine, Isle of Wight.

Twitchett 1994, fig. 3b.

Blattodean forewing, MIWG 7074 (collector: R.J. Twitchett), cited. Basal Shepherd's Chine Member, Vectis Formation, Wealden Group, just west of Shepherd's Chine, Isle of Wight.

Twitchett 1994, p. 48.

Blattodean clavus, MIWG 7086 (collector: R.J. Twitchett), figured. Shepherd's Chine Member, Vectis Formation, Wealden Group, beach west of Cowleaze Chine, Isle af Wight.

Twitchett 1994, fig. 3c.

Dipteran wing, MIWG 7102 (collector: R.J. Twitchett), figured. Shepherd's Chine Member, Vectis Formation, Wealden Group, beach west of Cowleaze Chine, Isle of Wight.

Twitchett 1994, fig. 3d.

Chironomid midge, IWCMS:1994.9 (collector: G. Leng), figured. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Brightstone Bay, Isle of Wight (locality details held at the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology and by Dr. E.A. Jarzembowski, Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery).

Geology Today, vol. l l (2). (1995), front cover, contents page, p. 42.

Chironomid midge, IWCMS:1994.100 (collector: G. Leng), figured. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Brightstone Bay, Isle of Wight (locality details held at the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology and by Dr. E.A. Jarzemhowski, Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery).

Geology Today, vol. 11 (2). (1995), front cover, contents page, p. 42.

Lower Cretaceous Reptiles

Yaverlandia bitholos Galton, fragmentary skull cap, MIWG 1530 (collector: F.M.G. Abell), holotype. "Upper Silty Bed", Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, north of the sea wall below Yaverland Battery, Yaverland foreshore, Isle of Wight (probably Bed 30 of Radley 1994~).

Galton 1971, text figs. 1,2, pp. 41-43.

Hypsilophodon foxii Huxley, metatarsal of MIWG 4127 (collector: H.F. Poole), cited. Hypsilophodon Bed, Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Cowleaze Chine, Isle of Wight.

Galton 1974, p. 10, fig. 58.

Predatory dinosaur, MIWG 6348 (collector: K. Simmonds), figured and cited. Unnamed plant debris bed approximately 17m. below

the Grange Chine Black Band, Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, north-west of Grange Chine, Isle of Wight.

Hutt, Simmonds and Hullman 1989, figs 3-6; discussed throughout. Radley 1994d, fig. 3.

Predatory dinosaur, MIWG 6352 (collector: K. Simmonds), figured and cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Chilton Chine foreshore, Isle of Wight.

Hutt, Simmonds and Hullman 1989, figs 2,4: discussed throughout.

Possible baryonychid tooth, MIWG 3642 (collector: Mrs. Mackenzie), figured and cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Yaverland, Isle of Wight.

Martill and Hutt 1996 (in press).

Possible baryonychid tooth, MIWG 5120 (collector: S. Hutt), figured and cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Hanover Point, Isle of Wight.


Possible baryonychid tooth, MIWG 5122 (collector: S. Hutt), figured and cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Isle of Wight.


Possible baryonychid tooth, IWCMS:1995.207 (unknown collector), figured and cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Isle of Wight.


Possible baryonychid tooth, IWCMS:1995.208 (unknown collector), figured and cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Isle of Wight.


Possible baryonychid tooth, IWCMS:1995.209 (unknown collector), figurcd and cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Isle of Wight.


Iguanodon sp., rib (mounted thin section and three SEM stubs), MlWG 6770 (J. Clarke, thesis collection), figured and cited. Bed SS24 (L11) of Stewart (1978), Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Brightstone Bay, Isle of Wight.

Clarke and Barker 1993 (erroneously cited as MIWG 6671), figs 4-7; pp. 60-63. Clarke 1994 (erroneously cited as MIWG 6670). figs 3,4.

lguanodon sp., sectioned vertebra, MIWG 5196 (collectors: Mr. &Mrs. Johnson & S. Hutt), figured and cited. Diplocraterion ironstone, Shepherd's Chine Member, Wealden Group, 200111 west of Atherfield Point, Isle of Wight.

Clarke 1990, pls. 1-6, figs 1-7; discussed throughout.

Clarke and Barker 1993, figs 2-3; pp. 57-63. Clarke 1994, fig. 6.

Iguanodon sp., centrum of caudal vertebra, MIWG 5385 (collector: S. Hutt), cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Grange Chine beach, Isle of Wight.

Clarke and Barker 1995, p. 906.

Iguanodon sp., centrum of caudal vertebra, MIWG 5454 (unknown collector), cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Isle of Wight.

Clarke and Barker 1985, p. 906.

Iguanodon sp., centrum of caudal vertebra, MIWG 7320 (unknown collector), figured and cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Isle of Wight.

Clarke and Barker 1995, text figs 4,6,8, pl. l., figs 1,3,4,5,7,8,9; pp. 906,912-913.

Iguanodon sp., centrum of caudal vertebra, IWCMS:1994.14 (unknown collector), figured and cited. Wessex Formation, Wealdcn Group, Isle of Wight.

Clarke and Barkcr 1995, (erroneously citcd as IWGMS:1994.14), text figs 3, 5,7, ~1.1.. figs 2,6;

pp. 906,908.

Iguanodon bernissarlensis Boulenger, MIWG 5126 (collector: S. Hutt), figured. Approximately 10m below the top of the Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Barnes High, Isle of Wight.

Radley 1993~. fig. 1 (number not citcd). Radley 3994d, fig. 9.

Iguanodon alherfieldensis Hoolcy, MIWG 6344 (collector: K. Simmonds), figured. Unnamed plant debris bcd approximately 17m below the Grange Chine Black Band, Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, north-west of Grange Chinc, Isle of Wight.

Radlcy 1994~. fig. 2 (number not citcd).

Polacanrhus foxi Hulke, ossicles and tail plate base, MIWG 37 (ex Newport Museum), citcd. Wessex Formation, Wealdcn Group, Brook Bay, Isle of Wight.

Blows 1987, Appendiccs 1 and 2.

Polacanrhus foxi Hulke, dorsal spine, MIWG 1191a (collector unknown), cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Isle of Wight (unlocatcd in stores).

Blows 1987, Appendices 1 and 2.

Polacanthus foxi Hulke, ossicle and sacral shield fragment, MIWG 1983 (collcctor: F.M.G. Ahell), cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Yavcrland, Isle of Wight.

Blows 1987, Appendix 1.

Polacanthus foxi Hulke, ossicle, MIWG 4222 (collector: H.F. Poole), cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Yaverland, Isle of

Wight. Blows 1987, Appendix 1.

Polacanlhus foxi Hulke, caudal vertebra, MIWG 5144 (collector: Mrs. Hodgson), cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Brook Bay, Isle of Wight.


Polacanthus foxi Hulke, caudal plate fragment, MIWG 5145 (collector: S. Hutt), cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, between Grange Chine and Chilton Chine, Isle of Wight.


Polacanrhus foxi Hulke, plate fragments and ossicle, MIWG 5186 (collector: S. Hutt), cited. Wessex Formation. Wealden Group, Brook Bay, Isle of Wight.


Polacanlhus foxi Hulke, ossicles, MIWG 5187 (collector: S. Hutt), cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Brook Bay, Isle of Wight.


Polacanlhusfoxi Hulke, centrum of dorsal vertcbra, MIWG 5188 (ex Newport Museum), cited. Wessex Formation, Wealdcn Group, Isle of Wight.


Polacanlhus foxi Hulke, dorsal spine, MIWG 5307 (collector: S. Hutt), cited. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, approximately 300m north-west of Grange Chine, Isle of Wight.


Brachiosaurid sauropod femur, MIWG 6484 (collector: S. Hutt), figured and cited. Approximately 10m bclow the top of the Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Barnes High, Isle of Wight.

Radley 1994d, fig. 4. Blows 1995, text fig. 5b; p. 194.

Brachiosaurid sauropod humerus, MIWG 5211 (collector: S. Hutt) figured and cited. Wcssex Formation, Wealden Group, betwcen Chilton Chine and Grange Chine, Isle of Wight.

Blows 1995, text fig. 5c; p. 194.

Palaeogene Reptiles

Diplocynodon hanloniensis (Owen), MIWG 6486 (collcctor: A. Yulc), jaw figured. Headon Hill Formation, Solent Group, foreshore approximately lkm east of Fishboume Creek, Isle of Wight.

Huu, Simmonds and Hullman 1989, fig. 3.

Palaeogene Mammals

Eotalpa anglica Sige, Crochet & Insole, tooth, MIWG 5355 (collector: J. Hooker), holotype. 'Lower Hcadon Beds', Headon Hill Formation, Solent Group, Heddon Hill, Isle of Wight.

Sige, Crochet and Insole 1977, pl. 1, fig. la-c; pp. 144-145.

Eotalpa anglica Sige, Crochet & Insole, tooth, MIWG 5356 (collector: J. Hooker), figured and cited. 'Lower Headon Beds', Headon Hill Formation, Solent Group, Headon Hill, Isle of Wight.

Sige, Crochet and Insole 1977, pl. 1, fig. 2a-c; p. 145.

Pleistocene Mammals

Bos sp., mandible, MIWG 1776 (collector: M. Thorne), cited. Pleistocene, Newtown, Isle of Wight.

Munt and Burke 1986, p. 7 , unlocated in stores.

Lower Cretaceous Reptilian Ichnofossils

Iguanodontid footcast, MIWG 5419 (collectors: staff of the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology), figured. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Hanover Point, Isle of Wight.

Radley 1994a. fig. 3a.

Sauropod or ankylosaur footcast, MIWG 6508 (collector: P. Manning), figured. Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, Brook Bay, Isle of Wight.

Radley 1994a, fig. 3b.

Theropod footcast, MIWG 5768 (collector: J. Crouch), figured and cited. Shepherd's Chine Member, Vectis Formation, Wealden Group, Cowleaze Chine beach, Isle of Wight.

Radley 19940, fig. 3c. Radley 1 9 9 4 ~ photo 1. Radley 1994f. p. 134.

Theropod digit cast, MIWG 6343 (collector: unknown), figured. Shepherd's Chine Member, Vectis Formation, Wealden Group, Cowleaze Chine beach, Isle of Wight.

Radley 19940, fig. 3d. Radley 1994e. photo 2.

Lower Cretaceous: derived Lower Jurassic clast

MIWG 6408 (collector: S. Hutt), cited. 3m below Grange Chine Black Band, Wessex Formation, Wealden Group, 500m east of Grange Chine, Isle of Wight.

Radley 1993c, discussed throughout (number not cited).

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THE WORTHEN COLLECTION OF PALAEOZOIC VERTEBRATES AT THE ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM

by Richard L. Leary & Susan Turner

Leary, R.L. &Turner. S. 1996. The Worthen Collection of Palaeozoic vertebrates at the Illinois State Museum. The Geological Curator 6(5): 195-205.

GEOLOGICAL The Illinois State Museum holds a very important Palaeozoic fish collection, containing almost half of the material which was the basis for the Geological Survey of Illinois palacontology reports at the end of the last century. The other major part of the material studied by Amos H. Worthen and Orestes St. John is at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachuseth. The Worthen collection of vertebrate fossils at the Illinois State Museum had not been adcquatcly curated since nearly being destroyed by a move withoutexpertmuseumsupervision over 100 years ago. Recurationofthevertebrates has resulted in a new catalogue of the fossils.

Richard L. Leary, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illimis. 62706, USA and Susan Turner. Queensland Museum. P.O. Box 3300, S . Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia. Received 1st March 1996.

In t roduct ion those beginning with ' 13' are later additions. Some of

For one week in April 1983, Susan Turner visited the Illinois StateMuscum to examinePalaeozoicvertcbratc fossils. MostofthefossilsintheMuseum werecollectcd inthemid-nineteenthcentury by noted amateur-turned- professional, Amos Henry Worthen(1813-1888, Figure 1). During a move to a new museum location in 1887, thc fossils were lilerally shovellcd into boxes. This event almost certainly contributed to Worthcn's subsequent rapid decline and death in 1888. In the 1960s. Leary undertook a search for all recognizable type and figured specimens in thc State Museum. Of the supposed 4700 described and 3500 figured specimens claimed by Museum Direclor A. R. Crook in 1910, Leary (1971) could locate only 66, six of which werevertebratespecimens (live typcs, twoquestionable; and onc figured). Following enquiries from Turner about thc whereabouts of aLower Carboniferous shark, Thrinacodus St John and Worthen 1875, the authors planned tomake furlherjoint scarches of the collection.

UponTumer's arrival in Springfield, we decided that it was time to recurate the collection as wcll as possible. The specimens were collected together in a bank of drawers within the Carboniferous section of the Museum's basement storage (Figure 2). Loosc labels had been retained in a separatc box. Most fossils had on them asmall handwrittennumberinink (e.g., Figure3). These could be matched with labels in some cases. The numbers beginning with a '3' came from the old Geological Survcy collections, prcsumably collected by Worthenprior Lo 1858; thoscbeginningwith a '7' are vcrtebrates collected by Worlhen or his CO-collectors;

the fossils arc figured specimens or specimens studied for the classic works of Newberry and Worthen (1866) and St John and Worthen (1875, 1883). A further few imponant spccimens have been recognized in the latest search. These were designated TYPE or Figured by St John and Worthen. As others have recognized (e.g., Kent 1982), the use of the Lerm TYPE by Worthen and colleagues does not necessarily mean a type specimen in the modem sense. However, such designated specimens were undoubtedly used by Worthen and co-workers in formulating descriptions.

History of Worthen 's Collection

The broad outlines of Worthcn's life are well known (Blissand Whitc 1890,Kent, 1982). He wasessentially a self-taught geologist being inspired and stimulated by another well-known amateur, Gideon Mantell, whose books Wonders of Geology (1838) and Medals of Creation (1 844) were the first he acquired (Bliss 1890). His early finds in the gcode bcds near Warsaw, Illinois, where he movcd in 1836, led him on to be the chief exponcnt on Lower Carboniferous geology and palaeontology of Illinois. Worthen was appointed State Geologist in 1858 (Kent 1982). His and his collcagucs' pioneer work on the vertebrate faunas of the Carbonifcrous of mid-USA has not yet been superceded. Worthen was the first to recognize the importance of what he called the "platforms of death" - beds crowdcd with fish remains found in the lower Archimedes (Ke0kuk)Limestone; he published his first papers on these bcds (Worthen 1857). His discoveries

Figure 1. Amos Henry Worthen (1813-1888) -photograph Illinois State Museum.

interested Louis Agassiz anew to resumc his work on fossil fish (Bliss 1890) and led to his collaboration with two of America's greatest Palacozoic fish workers, John Strong Newberry (Kemp 1892) and Agassiz's student, Orestes St. John (Keyes 1921). Only recently has interest been revived in these important sequences. After a spell in Massachusetts, Worthen returned to Warsaw in 1844 and resumed collecting, spending more time on his collections than on his business, whicheventually was soldin 1855. By that timehe was established as anexpertin the field and began work for Dr. J. G. Norwood at the budding Geological Sul-vcy of Illinois.

Kent (1982, p.3) has discussed the collecting of that period. Worthenworkcd assiduously to form the nucleus of a State Museum collection. For several years the Illinois collections were housed at New Harmony,

Figure2. Examplesofcurrent IayoutofWorlhen specimens.

intimate acquaintance with the principal localities of the Carboniferous limestoncs in the Mississippi valley, cnablcd me to accomplish my investigation in much less time and with far more satisfaction than I should otherwise have bccn able to do in a single season. We explorcd together these formations as far as the moulh of the Ohio, after which Mr Worthen carried on, under my direction, the observations through Tennesee and Alabama, with a vicw to thc recognition of the groups establishcd in the investigation in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri." (Hall 1857). In his time as State Gcologist, Worthen enlisted many outstanding palaeontologists to study lllinois fossils, the results of which were published in cight tomes between 1866 to 1890 (two of which dealt thoroughly with fossil fishes), volumes referred to as the WorthenSurvey (Bergstrom 1982) (Figure 5).

During his collecting, Worthcn spent much time trying Indiana, a centre for scientific study in mid-ccntury. toprovideduplicatesetsofspecimenstothccducational Tbemuseum collections were moved to Springfield in institutions of the State. Thc State collections built up 1855. After a rough passage on thc river, the collection and were again movcd to a rented room in thcspringfield was stored first in the Supreme Court Building, then in Masonic Hall where Lhey were partially saved from fire the Senate Chamber where it was open to view in the in 1871 by theprompt actionof Wonhen's son,Charles. winters of 1855 and 1856, and finally in the ncw However, much was damaged by water and specimens Arsenal building (Figure 4), whcrc working conditions and labcls were lost (Kent 1982). The collections were were sadlv inadeauate (Crook 1907). moved arain, this time to the basement of the new state

capitol building. In 1875, the State Legislature, in the In 1858, after aperiod as James Hall's assistant on the

bclicfthateverything was h e n knownaboutthe geology Geological Survey ofIowa, Worthen replaced Nonvood

and natural rcsourccs of Illinois, disbanded the State as State Geologist. Hall acknowlcdged Wonhen's Geological Survey. Wonhen immediately pressed for valuable aid on the survey: "My assistant - whose

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~ ~ . . . . __ _- . -_ 8 paticnt work. Kent (1982) tells us that "against

~ ~ t i t c o i s s ~ n t e ~uzs. C ~ L . flora. xo. 7895 l Worthen's wishes and during his abscncc from town", the museum was moved from the third floor to the main

..... Cladadus .... agopus .................................. ! floor and of the State House, This was done

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Figurc 3. Labels associated with the Worthen collcction and specimens.

a State CdbinetofNatural History but was nolsucccssful (Kent 1982). f-1: kept the collections in his care and worked without pay until 1877, when linally the Legislatureestablished the State Historical and Natural History Muscum. Worthen was made first Curator, reimbursed to the tune oT$1897.50, and thecollections moved again to bc stored in the basement of the new Capitol building. For moving and increasing thc collcctions, $2500 was appropriated and thc muscum transrerred "...and established in creditable style in the westwingofthethirdflooroftheStateHouse."(Crook, 1907).

During the next 10 years Worthen moulded the Slate Museum collection, selecting a complete series of Carboniferous fossils and separating these from the mass of Geological Survey material. The collcctions wcre thcn organized with the assistance of Fannie Fisher who served the muscum almost continuously until her dcath in 1935. Thcn in 1887 came the disasterous move which mined all that careful and

on higher authority by ordinary laborers of a furniture moving firm "who had no morc idea of the value of museum materials than Geronimo had of Shakespeare" with no supervision (Crook 1907). Lindahl, Worthen's successor, explained how "only in exceptional circumstances wcrc the labcls fixed to the specimens, and none of these had any numbcrs written or painted on them. Labcls and specimens were therefore shovcllcd into thedrawers and showcases athaphazard, and by no means always so that the labels belonged to any specimens in the same drawer" (Crook 1907). In the basement it was worse, for thc workmen piled up the collections of 35 years into a rubbish pile, whcre eventually Lindahl rctricvcd what hecould and put itin a locked room, "after much arguing". Worthen was a brokenman. He toldFannie that he could ncvcrattcmpt

Figurc 5. Example of A~nos Henry Worthen's writing. Dedication written in University of Queensland Geology library copy of a Geological Survey of Illinois volume.

Worthen's concept of a type specimen was not as it is

F i~ure 6. The present day Illinois State Museum at

to remedy the havoc. Later Lindahl did what he could. devoting "years of assiduous work" to save what could be saved. Kent (1982) outlined the subsequent history of the collection and attempts made by successive curators to maintain it.

now understood; and so several specimens in each taxon might be designated "type". Kent explains the numbering system and the duplication of numbers that can occur so that 3000 numbers can become 13000 numbers. We are pleased to think that in mid-1983 at least the vertebrate part of Worthen's collection in the StateMuseum was almostback to its original condition, and we hope Worthen would feel a little easier if he could see it today. However, in 1988 the museum's collections were again moved. They now reside in an old factory building renovated as a collections and research facility; the collections storage area has precisely controlled temperature and humidity which will further protect the fossil collection. There, yet again, Worthen's collection awaits reorganization and further curation.

The Museum acquired a more permanent home in 1923 whenthe Centennial Memorial Building was completed and finally the present museum was built in 1963 (Figure 6). Various inroads have been made on the collections atvarious times. Kent (1982) hasmentioncd three effects which have led to a depletion of the collection. For instance, J. Marvin Weller rcmoved materialto the GeologicalSurvey inurbanain 1938-39, which may have included some vertebrate matcrial. Worthen's handwritten catalogue was located in the Museum in 1962 and this helps to recognize Lype and figured specimens. However, as Kent reiterated,

Geology

Worthen collccted vertebrate fossils from the Middle Devonian to Upper Carboniferous in Illinois. The oldest fish fossils collected by Worthen are from the Middle Dcvonian of Jackson County in southwestern Illinois. TheLingleFormation, which Worthen referred to as the Hamilton Formation, and the underlying Grand Tower Formation, are exposed at the Devil's Backbone, promincnt ridges along LheMississippiRiver at Grand Tower, Illinois. Specimens in the Worthen collection are from both formations (Joseph Dcvera, pers. comm.). The locality is shown in fine engraving from Worthen and Meek (1868) in volume I11 of the Geological Survey of Illinois (Figure 7).

Figure 7. The Devil's Backbone, along Lhe Mississippi River at Grand Tower, Illinois, one of Worlhcn's fossil collecting localities (from Worthen and Meek 1868).

Although not included in his description of Carboniferous "fish beds" (Worthen 1866), the deposits of the Middle Devonian Lingle and Grand Tower formations are similar. They consist of horizons of concentrated fragmentary fish remains. The Lingle limestoneis equivalent to the Waspsipinicon and Cedar Valley of northern Illinois. "The Middle Devonian is dominantly limestone, although it is dolomitic in some areas. The upper part grades laterally to black shale in the deeper part of the Illinois Basin and a thin sandstone or sandy limestone occurs at the base in many areas. The Middle Devonian strata are generally very fossiliferous and the large fauna is dominated by brachiopods, corals, and conodonts, although other forms are common." (Willman et al. 1975, pp. 113-41

Newberry and Worthen (1866, pp. 14 & 15) wrote regarding the originof the fish beds: "It [the formation of the fish beds] seems to have been the probable result of one of two causes: either a superabundant development of ichthyie life during the accumulation of the sedimentary materials that forms these thin beds of limestone, or else (and more probably) from the sudden introduction of healed waters or noxious gases, that causcd a general and ovcrwhelming destruction of the finnv tribes of the Carboniferous ocean at these

catalogued at the University of Illinois (Hansman and Scott 1967). The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Haward University, contains material donated by Orestes St. John which contains Worthen and Charles Wachsmuth material; the Paleobiology Section of the Smithsonian Institution houses the Frank Springer and someofSt. John'scollection, partofwhichundoubtedly came from Worthen. The State Museum collectionis of importance because of the large percentage of type material which has been effectively unavailable until properly curated. There are specimens collected by Worthen himself, by Alexander (Alex) Butters, Anderson, Fletcher, Frank Springer (Schuchert 1927), members of the State Geological Survey, and there are written notes from St. John and Worthen with the material. Worthen began to write up the fish material on his own in 1857 and continued to be interested in the palaeoecological aspects of the bonebeds (Worthen 1870). He co-operated with some of the expert fish palaeontologists of his day, assisting John Strong Newberry (1822-1892), then professor of Geology in the School of Mines, Columbia College, New York, in two majormonographson theCarboniferousfish(1866 and 1870). Later, Worthen CO-authored two major works on the fish with Orcstcs Hawley St John (1875, 1665). different periods. Such destructive agents may have

been introduced, either by the action of submarine There is a need to review all the nineteenth century volcanoes or of thermal springs, and it is perhaps quite impossible, at the prescnt time, to determine to which of these causes, if either, we are indebted for the phenomenawe arenow considering". Laterthey added, "With a profound conviction that the suggcstions thus thrown out arc not altogether a satisfactory answer to the query propounded, we have nevertheless felt imprcsscd to offer them as the most probable solution presented by the facts before us, and with the hopc that they may lead to furthcr investigation and a more satisfactory answer to this interesting inquiry." Earlier they wrotc (p.ll), "The fossilized remains of fishes were observed in the Subcarboniferous limestonc of Illinois, by one of the authors (A.H.W.), as early as 1845; and the fact that they were the only memorials of thcvcrtebrated animalsofthe Carboniferous then known in this country gave this class of fossils a peculiar interest". However, in spite of this recognition of their importance and call for further work, these fossils havc remained largely unstudicd during the intervening 130 years.

Collections

The StateMuscum collection ofPalacozoic vertcbrates at Springfield was donated by A. H. Worlhcn effectively in 1855. Other parts of the vertebraLe collections of Worthen and his CO-collectors are safcly housed and

work done on Palaeozoic vertebrates because of their increasing use in biostratigraphical studies. Some of Worthen's material has undcrgone revicw in recent years (e.g., Maisey 1984, Lund 1985, Hansen 1987) and other taxa are now bcing studied as part of a recent UNESCO-IUGS International Geological Correlation Programme projcct 328 onPalaeozoicMicroverlebrates (1991.1995). The perceived lack of adequate original diagnoses which Newberry, St John and Worthcn and othersgave, albcittypicalof the time,hasled toafeeling that these fossils are of little use in biostratigraphy. However, asNcwbcrry himsclf realised, there is potential for use of Worlhen's collection becausc the specimens werc collected systematically, beautifully illustrated and well-documcntcd. The specimens can be tied into the modcrnsuccession in mid-USA with ease to provide a framework of vcrtcbrate faunas for use by the biostratigrapher.

Bclow is a list of the known Worthen specimens in the Illinois State Museum. It might be possible in time to identify more Worthen material. Each entry lists muscum accession number, name recorded, any comments on condition and numbcr of specimens, geological horizon and locality, collector and date of collection whcrcknown, and any rcfcrence to published works. Original documentation is housed at the Illinois State Muscum.

CATALOGUE OF WORTHEN SPECIMENS AT 31 18 Delrodus. KL. Le Grand. I.

ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM 31 19 Deltodus stellatus, Greencastle, TND, W. 3133 Deltoptychiusprimus? St J & W (poor), MtL, Honey Ck,

by Susan Turner

Abbreviations: *, FTGD = Figured specimen according to label; + = 2 disparate specimens with the same number; AN = Anderson; B =Alexander Butters; BUL = Burlington Limestone; CG = Chester Group; CL = ChesterLimestone; CM= CoalMeasures; Co. = County; Dev. = Devonian; F -= Fletcher; Fm. = Formation; Gp =Group; I = Illinois; IND = Indiana; I 0 = Iowa; K1 = Kinderhook Limestone; KL = Keokuk Limestone; M. = Middle; MO = Missouri; N & W = Newberry & Worthen; Path. = pathological specimen; PA = Pennsylvania; Penn. = Pennsylvanian; St J. = St John; SLL = St Louis Limestone; SP = Frank Springer; UBL = Upper Burlington Limestone; unno. = unnumbered; W = Worthen; WB =Warsaw Beds; WC = Wacbsmuth.

NB. Kinderhookian = basalMississippi~oumaisian up to top Hastanan; Up. Burlington Lst = Vist5an/ Chadian; Keokuk Lst = Visean/Amndian; Warsaw Beds = Visian/basal Holkerian; St Louis Lst = Viskan/ 1ateHolkerian-Asbian; Chester= ChesteridBrigantian.

Devonian 7545 plasoderm? bone, Dev. or reworked into Kindcrhook Gp? 7617 placoderm bone, Jackson CO? 7630 Holoptychius scales, Upper Dev., Famennian, Catskills,

PA. 7632/34? piece of bone, B ake-Oven, Devil's Backbone, Jackson

Co. 7635 Worthen label "Devonian fish remains, Hamilton Group,

Jackson Co., Ill. " - Ptyctodus toothplate, Asrerolepis? bone, possible placoderm spinal plate, piece of boncbcd including scales andPtycrodus = M. Dev. Lingle Fm.

7636 labelled "Devonian fish" (no obvious sign), brachiapods, Devil's Backbone, Jackson Co.. Illinois.

7638 placoderm bone, Dev., Jackson Co. 7639? rhipidistian scales & ornamcntcd bones. Catskill Gp,

Mansfield. Tioga Co., PA. 7641 Holoptychius, Catskill Gp. Mansficld, PA. unno. largeplacodermplateAspidichthys?, M. Dev., Ill. or Ohio?

unno. placoderm. Cement Quarry, M. Dev., Missouri?

Carboniferous 1236 Peripristis semicircularis, Penn. *2791/21 'TYPE, Deltodus sparulatuslCochliodus. 2932 "Chitomdus tubulis", KL, Keokuk?, W (wrong label with

specimens?) *3059 Polyrhizodusprinceps FIGD. SLL, Alton, B. 3063 C t e ~ c a n t h u s coxianus? (3, worn). KI?, Burlington? 3027? Delrodus occidentalis Leidy, WB, Warsaw. 3065 Ctenacanthus, SLL. Alton. I. 3076 Petrodus occidentalis, Bellville. 3077 Perrodus, Coal no. 1. CM, Rock Island Co.. I. W 1873. 3080 Asteroptychius, SLL, St Louis, MO. 3082? Polyrhizodusparvulus, UBL, Quincy. I, W. *3093 Desmiodus sp. FIGD, SLL, St Louis, MO, W. 3103 Sandalodus?lDellodusspatuIatus. SLL, Alton, I, W 1881 3114 Delrodusgrandis, KL, Kcokuk, 10, W. 3116 Dellodw rhomboidus (2) N & W. SLL, NE OF Watcrloo.

Monroe Co.. State.

I, CS. *3140 Deltoprychius varsoviensis TYPE. WB. Golden Bluffs, . .

Warsaw, I. *3141 Delrodus rrilobatus(?) St J & W, WB, Cement Mill, Piaxa

Ck. Jersev Co.. I. W 1870. note from St1"anextraordinarv largetooth" ...'p leasekeep this specimen for further study".

3121 DeNodus sparularusN & W, UBL. Quincy, I. 3123 Dellodusspatulatus, UBL. Augusta, 10. 3124 Deltodus spatularus, UBL, Honey Ck, Henderson Co., I. 3128 Deltodus?, UBL, Quincy, I. 7016 Gyracanthus fin spine, CM. USA or UK? 7035 Ageleodus pectinatus, UCM, ?Newsham, Northumber-

land, England, T. Atthey coll? 7046? Petalodus (with basal 'root'). 7048 ?Deltoduslcochliodont. 7050 Deltodus, CM, Carlinville, B. 7052 Acondylacanthus?, SLL, Alton, I. 7053 Polyrhizodus. +7054 Deltoduspropinquis, roofno 5 coal, LCM. Carlinville and . . .

UC, Gillespie, I, B. 7058 Ctenoorvchius semicircularis. LCM. roof of Coal no. 5. . ,

Carlinville. I, B. 7066 petalodont (broken). CM, Springfield. I, W. 7068 Petalodus ohioensis, Penn. 7076 Cladodus sp. 7078 Petalodus, SLL, Alton, I, W. 7080 Petalodus? (3). CG, Chester, I, W (St 1). 7081 Fissodus bifidus "TYPES" (4). CL, upper bed, Chester, I,

W. 7082 Petalodus linguifer (4), CG. Chester. I, W. 7089 Polyrhizodus sp.. SLL. 7090 Deltodus sfellatus. KL. Keokuk? - check St 1. and W.

figures. 7093 Orrhopleurodus carbonarius (6). UC, upper 1st bed, La

Salle, I, W. 70941194 Cladodus micropusIClododuspolitus. CL?, Chester. I.

IGS. 7095 Cladodus zygopus, CG, Chestcr, I. 7096 Cladoduscosrarus. CL, Chester, I, W. 7097 CladodusmngnificusTuomey, CL. Chester, I, IGS, ident.

W. 7098 Cladodusgrandis N & W, CL, Chcstcr, I, IGS. 7099 Cladodusarandis (no. 173). CL, Roseclear Bluff, Hardin .

Co., I. 7100 Cladodus zygopus + petalodont cf. F, 'Tvlountain L",

Chcstcr, I. *7101 Aspidoruscrenulatus, CG, Chester.1, W; FIGDv.II,pl.viii,

Fig. 11. (13533)

. .. . ,. Chester. I, W. (13546)

7104 Gyracanthus spine, CM. Newsham. UK?, W - needs humidity control (one also marked 7103)

7106 Chomalodus sp., CG, Chestcr, I, W. 7109? Ileloduspolitus?, KL. 7110 Polyrhizodus littoni. CM? -not found. 7113 ?specimen found but no data. 7115 Dactylodus IobarusN & W, SLL, Allon, I, B 7116 ilelodus (20) CC, Chcster, I, W. (13539) 71 17 Dactylodus excavafus, CC. Chester. I. 7118 Helodus, CL, Monro Co., I, State coll. 1870. 7119 Helodus elytra N & W. KL?, Keokuk. 10, Fletcher. 7120 Psammodus rericularus. CG, Chester, I. 7121 Lambdodus?, CL, Chcster. I.

7122 Poecilodus rugosum, KL or CL? 7124 Petalodus acuminatus, CL. Chester, I. 7125 coprolites, CL, Chester, I. 7126 Cladodus , CL, Chester, I. 7128 Orodus, CG, Chester, I. 7131 Venustodus angustus? (9). CL, Chester, I, W &State. 7132 Xystrodusvenus, CL, Chester, I. 7135 indet?, CL, Chester. I. 7136 tooth of ?, CL, Chester, I. 7137 tlelodus? (small rectangular tooth), CL, Chester. I, W. 7138 tooth?, CG. Chester. I, W. 7139 "Cladodus" (broken cusp), Miss, Huntsville, Alabama. +7140 ?palaeoniscoid. no. 4 CL, Chester, Randolph Co., I, State

1870. (+ 13544) 7141 Acondylacanthus?, CC. Chester, I. 7142 fin spines, CL, Chester. I. 7143 Cterwcanrhus sitnilis, CG. Chotur. I. W 7144 Crenaranrhus cat~nolirarus. CC. Chertcr. 1. R? - GS. . . 7145 C t e ~ c a n t h u s angularus N & W (4), CL, Chester, I, W. *7147 Clerncanthusdef2erus (broken), SLL, Alton, I, B, Figd, v.

VIP, p1.22, fig.i. 7149 Crenacanthus (broken). SLL. Alton, I, B. +7150 spines (rotten)+Helodusnobilis?, Cuyahnga Shale. Berea,

Ohio - Dcv./Carb. 7151 cochliodontlHelodus?. SLL. Allan. I, B. 7152 spineundet. (2). SLL, Alton, I, B. 7155 Erismacanthus maccoyanus, SLL. Alton. I. B. 7156 "Drepanacanthus" reversus (Physonemus?), SLL, Alton,

I, all as 4156) 7158 "Ctenaconfhus" ~racillimus. SLL. Alton. I. B -~ ~ " 7159 "Cfenacanfhus", SLL. Alton. I. B. 7163 AmacanthusgibbosusN & W, SLL, Alton, I, BIGSI. 7164 various spincs incl. Clenacanthus. & calcified cartilage,

SLL? 7166 spine top. SLL. Alton, I. B. 7168 shark cartilage - braincase or girdle, K1 or SLL. 7169 Deltodus sp., SLL, Alton. I. B. 7170 cochliodont, SLL, Alton, I, B. 7171 cochliodont, SLL, Alton, I. 7172 "a new species" (pencil note), SLL, Alton, I, W/B. 7173 calcified cartilage, SLL, Alton, I. 7174 palaeoniscoid bone? & petaladant?, SLL, Alton, I, B. 7175 Poecilodus st ludovici, SLL, Alton, I, B. 7176 Cochliodus, WB, Keokuk, 10, AN. 7177 Drepanacanthus. SLL. 7178 Psammodusplenus St J & W (g), SLL, Alton, I, B. 7180 Petalodus hybridus, SLL, Alton, I, B. 7182 Helodus (tiny). SLL, Alton, I, B. 7183 Helodus? sp. (2), 7184 Helodus sp., SLL, Alton, I, B. 7185 cochliodont, SLL, Alton, I, B. 7186 Marracanfhusrectus (several), N &W, SLL, St Louis &

Alton, I. B/W/IGS. 7187 Marracanrhusrecrus, SLL, Alton, I. 7188 Deltopfychius parvulus (mandibular post. teeth), SLL,

Alton, I, B. 7189 Sandalodus?lDeltodus sparulur, SLL, Alton, I. IGS. 7191 Polyrhizodus littoni, SLL, Alton, I, B. 7193 Polyrhizodus, SLL, St Louis, MO, (det. M. Hanscn?) +7194 Cladodus sp., CL, Chcstcr, I, and 7194 Erismacantus

maccoyanus (3). SLL, Alton, I, B. 7195 Chomatodus insignis (3), SLL, Alton, I, R N ? +7197 Cladodus magnificus, CL, Chester, I; Dellopsis (1 3540),

SLL, Alton, 1, B. 7198 Stenopterodusparvulus. SLL, Alton. I. B. 7199 Venusrodus venustus Leidy, SLL, Alton, I, B. 7200 Tarnodu.~ fasciatus?, WB, Warsaw, I, W.

ganoid, SLL, St Louis, MO, W. bone indet.. SLG, Winchester, Scott Co., I. Physonemus allonensis, SLL, St Louis, Monroe Co. Acondylacanthus occidenfalis (3), SLL, St Louis, W. Ctenucanlhus gracillimus & other. SLL. Altou. I. W Cladodus jaw, SLL. Alton, I, W. Cladodus ferox (2 - one enormous but broken), SLL, Alton, I, BIIMNHflGS. undct. spine?. Cladodus jaw (fine specimen), WB, St Louis, MO Cladodus stenopus (2 & base). SLL, Alton. I. W. worn spine (2). WB. Hop Hollow, Madison Co., I. W. bradyodont tooth undet., WB, 3 mls above Alton, I, W. spine ornamented with stellate tubercles (6). St Louis, MO, W. Erismacanthus? (6). SLL, St Louis, MO. B. Chomatodus?, SLG, St Louis, MO, W. Tarnodus? (3), SLL, St Louis, MO, W. tuberculated spine. SLG, St Louis, MO. Acondylacanthus? (4). SLL, St Louis, MO, W. petalodont?/Helodus?. SLL, St Louis. MO. W undet. teeth (2). SLL, St Louis, MO. State. palaeoniscoid & other scales, SLL, St Louis, MO. calcified cartilage, SLL, Monroc Co., I, B? undct. tooth, KI/St Louis? pustulate bone, SLL, Alton, I, W undet. spine, SLL, Monroe Co.. I. Anfliodus? (2). SLL, Monroe Co. cochliodont & undet., WR, Warsaw, I. bone. WB. Orodus? spine. SLNB?, N Warsaw, I. Anfliodus polirus (3), WB, Warsaw, I. Asleroprychius spincs, SLL, Monrac Co., I, B. Asferoptychius. SLL, St Lauis, MO. Chitonodus (Deltodus), WB, Warsaw, I. Chomatodus insignis Leidy (8). SLL, Monroe Co., I, IGS. Chomarodus insignis (3). SLL, Alton, I. B. Cladodus ferox (2), SLL, Alton. I. B. Cladodus . SLL. Cladodus spinosus, SLL, Alton, I, B. Cladodur srenopus. SLG. Warsaw. I. Cladodus sp. (2 worn), WB, N Warsaw, I. Cladodus slenopus N &W. SLL, Monroe Co.. I, W label "Statc coll.". Cladodus stenopus, SLL, Alton, I, W 1881. Cladodus sp. (possiblyThrinacodus-S.T.), SLL. Alton.1. Cladodus . SLG. Monroe Ca., I. Cladodus . SLL, St Louis, MO. Cladodus , WB, 3 mls above Alton. I, W. Acondylacanthus?, SLL, Alton, I, B? "Ctenacanrhus"graci1limus (straightdentinerihs. 3). SLL, St Louis, MO, IGS. Clenopelalus sp. (2). SLL. Alton, I. Polyrhizodus(Dacrylodus)princepsN&W (6),SLL,Alton, I, B? Dactylodus lobafus (4+bits), SLL. Alton, I, B. bone & Polyrhizodus, SLL, St Louis, MO. Erlsmcanrhus mccoyanus. SLL. Momoe Co.. I. Gampsacanrhus iypus (22), SLL, St Louis, MO. Gampsacunthus?lM, SLL. Alton, I, W. Homacanlhus gibbosus (3) & Polyrhizodus lobatus, SLL, Alton, I. B. Orodusplicatulus, SLL, Monroe Co.. I. Orodus sp.. SLL. Monroc Co., I. Orodus (7), SLL, Alton. I. Desmiodusor Venustodrrs, SLL,Banett Station, St Louis, MO, W note.

7276 Petalodus curtis N & W , SLL ("WB"), 1.5 miles below Blu f f City, Scotts Co., I ; St J to W note "21 Dec 1870".

7277 Poecilodus st ludovici (3). SLG, Bremerlm Quarry, St Louis, MO. B.

7278 Polyrhizodus dentatus (3). SLL, Alton, I, B. 7279 Polyrhizodus littoni, SLL, Alton, I , B. 7281 Psephodusplanus (broken), SLL, St Louis, MO. 7284 Tanaoduspusillus (3). SLL, Alton, I, W . 7285 Venustodus (2), W B , Alton, I, W . 7286 Venustodus leidyi (3). SLL. Alton. I. B. 7287 Venustodus (31, UBL, Burlington, 10 , B. 7288 Varicinodus. KI, Le Grand, 10. 729-? Antliodlrspolitus, UBL, Pleasant Grove. State. 7293 Antlioduspolitus, KL, Keokuk?, B. 7297 Antliodus similis (3). W B K L , Warsaw. I . B. 73-? Antliodus or Chomatodus. 7300 Antliodus sulcatus (3). KL, Warsaw. I, B. 7301 Antliodus, KL, Keokuk, 10. 7302 Aspidotus crenulatus. KL. Burlington. 10. 7303 Chomatodus offinis. KL. Warsaw. I . BIW. +7304 Chomatodus angulatus (2). UBL, Burlington, I 0 and

Helodus. 7306 ChomatoduscuNillus (3) , UBL, Burlington, 10. 7307 Chomatoduspusillus (3). KL, Keokuk?, AN. 7312 Chomatoduspusillus (3). BL, W . 7313 Chomatodus sp.. BUL, Quincy, I. 7314 Chomatodus sp. (11) & small neoselachian? tooth, UB.

Quincy, I, W July 1870. 7315 Chomatodus sp. (2). KI, Le grand, 10. B. 7317 Chomatodus sp. uov?. KI, Burlington, 10. +7318 Cladodus alternotus, KI, Burlington, I 0 and (13535)

Cladodus micropus & Lan6dodus. KL, Keokuk, AN. 7319 Cladodusalternatus, KI, Burlington, 10, State. 7320 Cladodus angulatus, KL, Keokuk, 10. AN. 7321 Cladodusangulatus, KL, Keokuk. 10. AN

7358 Deltodus grandis, KL. AN. 7359 Deltodus occidenralis, KL. Keokuk, 10. F. 7360 Delrodus angularis, KL, Keokuk, 10 , F. +7361 Deitodus occidentalis = Deltodus angulus. KL. Keokuk,

10, F. 7362 Deltodus angularis &Deltodus occidenralis,KL Keokuk.

10 , F. 7363 Deltodus spathulatus, UBL. 7364 Deltodus spatulatus, Burlington. 10 , AN. 7365 DeNodus stellotus, KL. Warsaw, AN. 7366 cochliodontlDeltodus, BUL? +7367 Delfodus stellalus (some with dentine anomalies), KL,

Keokuk, 10. AN. Path. 7369 Deltodus undularuslPoecilodus, KL. Keokuk, 10 , F. 7370 Deltodus undulatus, KL. Hamilton. I . +7371 DeNodus undulatus, KL?. Warsaw, I . +7373 DeNoduslSandalodus. KL, Keokuk, 10 , F and Delrodus,

KI, Le Grand, I 0 and Delrodus, W B . Warsaw. I. 7374 Deltodus, KL, Keokuk, 10, F. 7375 Deltodus, KL, Keokuk. 10. 7376 Delrodus, KL, Keokuk, 10, F. 7377 Deltodus, KL, Keokuk, 10 , F 7378 Delrodus, KL, Keokuk, 10 , F. 7380 Deltodus, KL?. AN. 7381 DeltoduslSandalodus (2). KL, Keokuk, 10. 7384 Delroptychius wachsmuthi St J & W . KL, Keokuk, F. 7387 Desmiodus (2, 1 Helodus?), KI, Le Grand, 10. 7388 Sandalodus laevissimus, Kcokuk, 10 , F. 7392 Deltoduscomplanatus (3 ) & Acondylocanthusspine. UBL,

Burlington, 10. 7398 Sandalodus laevissimus, KL. Warsaw, I . 7402 Deltodus sp., EUL, Sagetown, I , W . +7403 Ctenacanlhus, KL, Keokuk, 10 , AN: fish spines, SLL, St

Louis, MO. 7404 Crenacanrhus tribulus, KL. Keokuk, 10. F.

7322 Cludodus bellifer?. BUL, Burlington, 10. AN. 7406 Cfich;odu.s co.starur ( h T 1 ) . UHI.. Warsaw. l. 7325 Cl~~dudusex i~uis . KI. Burlinrtun. 10. 7408 CoclrLodus~uslolu.switl~ honc/minc. KL. Warsaw.1. IGS.

W . . U .

7327 Cladodus intercoststus, UBL, Cedar Ck , Warren Co., I , coll?

7328 Cladoduslamnoides. KL, Warsaw. I . 7330 Cladodusmicropus, KL, Keokuk, 10 , F. 7331 Cladodus , BUL, F. 7332 Cladodusmicropus, UBL, Honey Ck, I . 7333 CladodusmicropusN & W , UBL, Burlington, 10. 7334 Cladodusprenuntius, KL, Keokuk, I, F . +7335 Cladodus , UBL, Pleasant Grove & Burlington. 10. "cf .

with Cladodus robustus". 7336 Cladodus springeri. K I , Burlington, 10. 7337 Cladodus succinatus, KI, Burlington, 10. 7338 Cladodus wachsmuthi, KI, Burlington, I 0 7340 Cladodus , KI. Le Grand, 10. 7341 Clododus , K I , Le Grand, 10. 7342 Clododus sp.. KIG. Le Grand. 10. 7343 Cladodus , KI, Le Grand, 10. 7344 Cladodus (specimen not found), KL, Keokuk, F. 7346 Cladodus. UBL, Burlington, 10. 7347 Cladodus, BUL, Quincy, I . 7348 Cladodus, KL, Keokuk, 10 , AN. 7349 Cladodus . UBL. Burlington. 10. 7350 Cladodus (2). UBL, Burlington, 10. 7352 Cladodus (worn with raised labial ridge) (2). LBL,

Burlington, 10. 7353 Cladodus sp., BUL, Burlington. 10. AN. 7354 Cladodus. UBL, Quincy, I . 7355 Cladodus, BUL? 7356 Cladodus robustus. BUL?, N. I. 7357 Cladodus exilis. KI. Burlington. 10.

. . . . . -. - 7409 ifelodus nobilis = Chironodus latus. KL, Keokuk, 10. F. 7410 Nelodusconsolidalus (3). KL, Warsaw, I, F. 741 1 llelodus consolidatus (2). KL, Keokuk, 10 , F. 7412 llelodusnobilis, KG. Keokuk, 10. AN. 7414 Helodusangulatus (2 ) (stuck to 7429 labcl), UBL, Pleaant

Grove & Quincy, I . 7415 Helodus compressus (5 , incl Chomatodus?) UBL, I 0 &I .

Warsaw; St Jnote. 7416 Helodus coniculus (28). LC. 7418 Helodus crenulatus, BUL, Burlington, 10. 7419 lleloduspolitus?N & W , KL?, Keokuk & Burlington. AN. 7420 Asleroptychius. SLL. Manroe Co.. I . 7423 Helodus sulcatus (7, c f . Chomatodus), UBL, Honey Ck, I,

W . 7424 Helodus? sp., KL. Keokuk, 10, F. 7426 ilelodus anguIalusIsulcarus. UBL, Augusta, 10. St Jnote. 7427 Helodus. UBL. 7429 Helodus?, UBL, Burlington, 10 , State. 7431 Orodus. 7432 Orodus ornalus (many. all sizes). KL, Keokuk, 10, AN. 7433 Chomatodus ("= llelodus"), UBL, Cedar Ck , I, W . 7434 Liodus calcaratus. UBL. Burlington, 10. 7435 Lisgodus sp. nov?, KI. Burlington. 10. 7437 Mesodmodus explanarusSt J & W (5). KI, Burlington, 10,

W . 7439 Orodus ornatu5 (several in jaw, teeth & scales), KL,

Keokuk. 10, AN. 7440 Orodus daedalus (6) , KI, Burlington, 10. 7441 Orodusdaedalus (16). KI, Le Grand, 10. 7442 Orodus decussatus? (2) , KI, Le Grand, 10.

7443 Orodus decussatus (5), KI, Burlingmn. 10. 7444 OroduseleganfulusN & W, UBL, Quincy, I, W Old coll. 7445 Orodus major (2, 1 is Helodus), KI?, Burlington, 10 . +7446 Delfodus sp., BUL, Honey Ck?, Henderson Co., I, W and

Orodustuberculafus (2). UBL. Burlington, 10. 7447 Orodus whiteii (articulated), KI, Le Grand, 10. 7448 Orodus sp. (6 articulated). KI, Le Grand, 10 . 7449 Helodus? (2). KIG, W. +7450 Helodus; and Orodus culcararus, UBL. B/. W. 7451 Orodus ornatus? (2). KL, Warsaw, I. 7452 Orodusmarillaris, UBL. Honey Ck. I. 7454 Orodusvaricostatus. BULI, Burlington. 10, AN. 7455 Orodusvaricosfatus, BL. Burlington, I 0 7456 Helodus sp. (7), UBL, Honey Ck, I, W. 7457 Cladodus.Mesodmodus& assorted teeth, LBL. Burlington,

10 , SP 1872. 7458 Mesodmodus variabilis (7). UBL, Buffinton Ck. 10, "L.

SP". 7460 Antliodus (16). UBL, Quincy, I, IGS. 7461 Pefalodus?. KG. Keokuk, 10, F. 7462 Petalorhynchus striatusN&W (2), UBL, Quincy, I. W. 7463 Pefalorhynchussrriatus (2). UB, Honey Ck. I. W. 7467 Petrodus sp., UBL, Quincy, I, State. 7468 Polyrhizodus porosus? or Chomafodus. UBL, Pleasant

Grove, Des Moines, 10, St 1 to W. 7469 Antliodus. Petalodus or Tanaodus. UBL. Burlington, 10.

(13538) 7470 Poecilodus sfellatus (3), WB, Warsaw, I. 7471 Poecilodus ornatus. KL, Keokuk. 10 , F. 7472 Poecilodus ornotus, KL, Kcakuk, 10, AN 7473 Poecilodusporosus (3), KG, Keokuk, 10, AN. 7474 Poecilodus rugosus, KL, Keokuk, 10, F. 7475 Polyrhizodus truncatus, BUL?, Burlington, 10, W. 7476 PolyrhizodusporosusN&WorPeralodrrsorChomafodus

(12), UBL, Quincy,l; Wnotc"is this aPolyrhizodusatall". 7477 Polyrhizodus?. BUL, Sagetown, I, W. 7478 Psephodus fumidux, BUL, Burlington, 10. 7479 Psammodus springeri- UBL, Burlington, 10. W. 7480 Psammodus springeri N & W (2), UBL, Burlington, 10 ,

WC. +7482 Cfenacanthus sp. spine or Physonemus depressus (2), KI.

Budington, 10. 7483 Physonemus depressus? (2). KI, Le Grand, 10. 7484 spine undet. +7485 Physonemus carinatus (missing?) & "Physonemus

proclivus" = Clododus tooth, KI, Burlington, 10. 7486 Physonemus? sp., KI, Lc Grand, 10 . 7487 Psephodus obliquus, BUL. Burlington, 10. AN. 7488 Psephodus obliquus? 7489 Psephodus symmetricus (sevcral). KI, Le Grand, 10. 7496 C t e ~ c a n t h u s varians (5). KIG, Le Grand, 10. 7497 ?Ctenacanthus spectabilis St J & W (2). KI, Le Grand. 10. 7498 Crenacanthussculptus? (very worn), KI. Le Grand, 10, B. 7499 Ctenacanfhus sculptus (2). KI. Burlington. 10. 7500 DrepanacanfhuslBalacanfhus sp., KI, Le Grand, 10. 7501 Ctenacanthus sp. (very largeornament). KI, LeGrand, 10. 7502 Ctenacanthus?. UBL, Burlington, 10 , W. 7503 Drepanacanthus? (Ctenacanthus) keokuki. KL, Keokuk,

10, F. 7504 Drepanacanfhus?lXystrodus, KL. Keokuk, 10, F. 7505 Drepanacanthus?. KL, Keokuk, 10, F. 7506 Ctenacanthus coxanus St l?, KL, Keokuk, F. 7507 Ctenacanthus, UBL, Honey Ck, I. 7508 "Ctenacanthw raridentatusn. sp.". UBL. Pleasant Grove.

1~ -.

+7509 Cfenacanfhus keokui, KL, Warsaw. I, State; Acondylacanthus?, UBL. Pleasant Grove. I.

7510 Ctenacanthus speciosus (3, 1 worn), KI, Burlington, 10. 7511 Ctenacanthus. 7512 CAST Acondylacatrrhus ziphias St J &W, SLL, Alton, I, 7514 Acondylacanthusgracillimus, KI, Burlington, 10. 7515 AsteroprychiusvetustusS t J & W or Acondylacanrhus (2),

KI, Le Grand, 10. 7516 Asteroptychius. KI. Burlington, 10. 7517 Asteroptychius or Acondylacanthus (4). KI, Le Grand, 10. 7518 Glymmatacanthus?, KI, Le Grand, 10. 7519 Drepanacanthus?, KL?, Keokuk?, 10. 7520 Physonemusgigas? (worn) = Ctenacanthus?, UBL, Quincy,

I .

+7523 Cladodus deflexus, UBL, Pleasant Grove. 10; coprolite?l phosphatenodules &bits ofcladodonttooth, KI, Clarksville, MO, B?

7524 Orodus. 7525 palaeoniscoid fragmenls. KI. Burlington, 10. W. 7526 Drepomconrhw7, KL. Keokuk. 10. 7531 assorted teethetc., L,Cladodus, Helodus,BUL, Burlington,

10. F 7534 PoeciloduslFlelodus?. KL, Keokuk, 10, F. 7535 cochliodont, KL. Keokuk. 10 . 7537 Polyrhizodus. KL, Keokuk?, F. 7539 Glymmatacanthus spine. 7542 indet spine (2). KL. Keokuk, 10. F. 7545 piece of skull bone? - see Devonian. 7546 dermal scutes (iniopt?) & Petrodus. KI, Burlington, 10. 7547 fin spine, KI. Lc Grand, 10. 7548 indet?, KI, Burlington, 10 . 7549 Deltodus?, KIG, Burlington, I. 7550 spine. KI, Burlington, 10. 7551 Chomatodus (2). KT. Le Grand. 10. 7552 cochliodont, KIG, Burlington, 10. 7553 palaeoniscoid? bone, KI, Burlington, 10 , W. 7554 Chomatodus, UBL. Pleasant Grove, Des Maines Co. 7556 cochliodont & Dcltodus, BUL, Burlington, 10. +7557 Deltodus, UBL, Burlington, 10 and Ctenacanthus? spine. 7561 Acondylacanthus? spine, LBL, Burlington, 10. 7562 hclodont, UBL, Pleasant Grove, 10. 7563 cochliodont, L. LC. 7564 Helodus?. UBL. Quincy, I. 7565 assorted teeth, petalodont, Orodus, Helodus, glauconitic

band. 7566 Antliodus?. BUL. Quincy. I. +7567 Polyrhizodus,Deltodus & Chomatodus(5), BUL, Quincy,

I. 7568 Cladodus & Petalodus (12). UBL?. Quincy, I. 7569 indct bone fragments, UBL. Quincy, I. 7571 large bones?bradyodont, BUL, Sagetown, HendersonCo.,

I. W. +7572 Cladodus sp.. SLL. Quincy. I and Cladodus cus~idatus. - .

UAL. Quiniy, I. 7573 helodontIcochliodont?, BL, Quincy, I, B. 7574 fish s ~ i n e (worn. KL. Warsaw. I. . , . . 7575 Drepanacanthus (2. tuberculated). KL, Warsaw, I. 7576 Cochliodvs (2). KL, Warsaw, I. 7577 Deltodus sp., KG, Niota, I. 7578 bradyodont, KL. 7579 cocl~liodant/Deltodus? (2), KL, Warsaw. I. 7580 CAST - fin spine, KL. 7581 Delfodus sp.. De Moines Rapids. Lee Co., 10. 7584 bone bed samplc, KL, Keokuk. 10. 7585 Helodus? and petrodi, KL, Kcokuk. AN. 7586 Cochliodus (2). KL, Keokuk, AN. 7587 round spinc?. RUL. Burlington. 10. AN. 7589 Deltodus sp., UBL, Honcy Ck, I. 7591 Lambdudus dcnticle, UBL, Honcy Ck, I.

7592 helodonts, UBL, Honey Ck. Henderson Co.. I, W. 7593 OroduslHelodus? 7595 Cladodus and stellate placoderm? bone or is it crossopt?

(reworked?), BUL. Honey Ck. I. 7596 fin spine in sst - acanthodian?, CM?. 7597 spine indet. (worn). KI, Le Grand, 10. 7598 calcified cartilage. KI, Le Grand, 10. 7600 calcifiedcartilage(spineorskeleta1element) KI, LeGrand.

10. 7601 fish spine (worn), KI, Le Grand. 10. 7602 Petrodus, calcified cartilage, KI, Le Grand, 10. +7603 Psephodus; fishspines (worn, unusual), KI, LeGrand, 10. 7604 Petroduspusrullosus (several), KI, Le Grand, 10. 7605 Psephodus and Helodus, KIG, Le Grand. 10. 7606 Psephodus obliguuslcochliodont (assorted small plates).

KIG. Le Grand. 10. 7608 bonebed & 8 assorted toothplates. KIG, Le Grand, 10. B? 7609 "cruciform" bone, KIG, Le Grand, 10. B. 7611 Drepanacanthus?. KL, Hamilton, I. 7614 mostlyPrychtodus.KIG,PikeCo..I(reworkedDevonian?). 7615 bradyodont undet. 7623 large fish bones, KIG, Louisiana, MO, B 7626 cochliodont, bone with tooth. 7627 Delfodusangularus?&ptychtodont?toothplate(reworked

Devonian?). KI, Louisiana, MO. 7628 Helodus? or eugeneodont. KIG, Louisiana, MO. 7629 Deltodus. 7642 Chifinodus vaticinus (several), UBL, W. 7648198 cochliodont. 7753 Chomatodus. BUL. 7835 Cladodus & spine indet. 7838 Delrodus? with Calopodus-type tooth, LC. 7891 Anlliodus cucullxs. KL. Hamilton. I. B. *8720 Physonemus falcatus St 1 & W 1875, SLL - Lund 1985

refers to falcatus. *8721 Orodusverustus FIGD, SLL, St Louis, MO, Washington

University. 13527 Cfenocanthus sp. = Acondylacanthus aequicostatus, CG,

Chester, I. (+7147) 13528 Drepanacanfhus (3) 13530 Batacanthus sfellaf~~s, KL. Keokuk. 10. 13533 cladodonrid, cartilages - jaws and head?. SLL. Alton. I. B. 13541 Helodus, UBL. Quincy, I. W. umo Anlliodus and cf. Anfliodus. WO Chomatodus, LC. unno Chomatodus inconstans, CG, Sloan's Valley, Kent. I? unno Ctenacanrhus. unno Helodusnobilis, KL?, I? unno Dellodus (assorted). UBL, Warsaw, St Louis, C. unno Deltodus stellatus, KL. Kwkuk, 10. umo Delrodus stellarus. BUL, Quincy. l. unno Delfodus with dentine blister. LC. Path. unno Cladodus srenopus, KL or SLL?, Whitehall Green Co. unno tlelodusIOrodus?, WB. Scatt Co.. I, W nmo Deltodusstel!atus"oneofth~original~~fDel~odu~s~e//atus

N &W. Keokuk, W . unno Helodus sp.. BUL, Burlington, 10. umo edestid or petalodont in jaw. unno Rhizodus hibberti SLL, Alton, I. umo Acondylacanrhus, KL. Bentonsport? unno Physonemus. unno Polyrhizodus (Dactylodus) princeps, SLG, Allon?. B? unno Polyrhizodus limoni?, no. 4, Chester, Randolph Co.,? unno Poecilodus, BUL, W. unno Drepanacanthus nnno PsephoduslHelodus biformisN & W (14). KI, Rurlington.

10, W.

unno Helodus (2), KI. Burlington, 10; St J note "Newberry referred to Helodus biformis".

unno Drepanacanfhusgemmar~rsN& W (4), KL, W, I; St1.note to Worthen "5 Aug. 1870".

Acknowledgements

We thank Joseph Devera (Geological Survey of Illinois) for transmitting informationon current geological nomenclature. photographs courtesy of the ~ l l i n o i s State Museum (photographer Marlin Roos), the Illinois StateLibrary. S.T. lhanks the Illinois State Museum for financial help and the Leary family for excellent hospitality during her stay in Springfield and the Queensland Museum for basic facilities during her Honorary Research Fellowship.

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CROOK, A.R. 1907. A history of the Illinois Stale Museum of Natural History. Illinois State Museum, Springficld, 20 p.

HALL, J. 1857. On the Carboniferous limestones of the Mississippi valley. Proceedings of the American Association for /he Advancemenr of Science, 10th mceling, 1856, Albany, NY, 51-69.

HANSEN, M.C. 1987. Systematic relationships of pctalodontiform chondrichthyans.1n J.T. Duwo Jr & H.W. Pfcrferkorn (cds). Neuviime Congris Internaiional de Slratigraphie et de Geologie du Carbonifere. Comptc Rendu, v. S,Paleontology, Paleoecology, Paleogcography. Pp. 523-544.

HANSMAN, R.H. and SCOTT, H.W. 1967. Catalog of Worthcn type and figured specimens at the University of Illinois. Journal of Paleonfology 41,1013-1028.

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MAISEY, J.G. 1984. Studies on the Paleozoic Selachian genus Ctenacanthus Agassiz. No 3. Nominal Species referred to Ctenacanthus. American Museum Novitates 2794.1-20.

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MANTELL, G . 1844. The Medals of Creation: or Firs1 Lessons in Geology, and [he Study of Organic Remains. Henry G. Bohn, London.

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ST JOHN, 0. and WORTHEN, A.H. 1883. Descriptions of fossil fishes; a partial revision of the cochliodonts and psammodonts. Geological Survey oflllinois v. VII, 55-264.

WILLMAN, H.B., ATHERTON, E, RUSCHBACH, T.C., COLLINSON, C., FRYE, J.C., HOPKINS, M.E., LINEBACK, J.A., and SIMON, J.A. 1975. Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy. Illinois State Geological Survey. Bulletin 9 5 , 2 6 1 ~ ~ .

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LOST & FOUND

Enquiries and information, please to Patrick Wyse Jackson (Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland). Include full personal and institutional names and addresses, full biographical details of publications mentioned, and credits for any illustrations submitted. The index to 'Lostand Found' Volumes 1-4 was published in The Geological Curator 5(2), 79-85. The index for Volume 5 was published in The Geological Curalor 6(4), 175-177.

Abbreviations:

CLEEVELY - Cleevely, R.J. 1983. World palaeontological collections. British Museum (Natural History) and Mansell Publishing Company, London.

GCG -Newsletter of the Geological Curalors' Group, continued as The Geological Curalor.

LF - 'Lost and Found' reference number in GCG.

204 British Association for the Advancement led to an extension of the First Series to the Second of Science collection of geological Issue (B) in 1903 and theThird Issue in 1904. A Second

photographs. Series was produced in 193 1 with a First Issue (D) and a Second Issue (E). Mounted prints from these Issues

See also GCG 5(4): 158; 5(6): 230; 6(4): 174. were commonly to be seen omamenting the walls of Professor Frank Hodson, University of Southampton mmerous Geology Departments up and down the writes: country.

The idea for a collection of geological photographs Almost everything that was housed in Bristol was originated in a~aoerbvMr . Osmund W. Jeffs in a ~ a ~ e r destroyed by air raid and sometime after 1940 the

v A - . . A read to the Association at its mceting in Bath in 1888. collectionofprints was transferred from theGeologica1 At the 1889. Ncwcastle meeting it took concrete form Survey totheGeology DepartmentofImperialCollege.

v

in theestablishment of a~ommitteeforthe"~ollection, In 1970,Prof. J. ~uttonwishcd to relocat~thecollection Preservation and Systematic Registration of andProf.F.Hodson,atthattimeRecorderofSectionC Photographs of Geological Interest in the United (Geology) of the Association, accepted them. Sixty Kingdom". The Chairman was Professor Jamcs Geike eightportfolios werercceivedforstorageintheGeology and the Secretary Mr O.W. Jeffs. The Committee Department at Southampton University. Discussion existed until the beginning of the Second World War with the Nature Conservancy took place as to a with the following officers. permanent repository forthe collection. They, however,

were awaiting a new larger building and were not able ThetwochairmenwereProf. J. Geike(1889-1916) and at the time to house i t in their then current In

E'J' Garwood (1916-1940) and the Secretaries 1979, the Irish material was transferred to the Ulster O.W. Jeffs(1889-1895);ProfW.W. Watts(1895-1916); Museum in Belfast, It contributed to the jointly Prof. W.W. Watts and Prof. S.J. Reynolds, and catalogue of photographs of R, J, Welch (1983). finallyProf. S.J.Re~nolds(l916-1940). Overtheyears jzventually, in 1992 halfa century, the residue of the Committee issued 29 printed reports, the last in the the col,ection was to the custody of theBritish report of the 1939, Dundee Meeting. By that time the Geological Survey, numberofprints had grown to 9102. ProfessorReynolds reoorted that the ~ r i n t s were contained in "about one hundred albums"kept in thelibrary of H.M. Geological Survey.Theotherproperty includingthe card catalogue, the negativcs, spare copies of successive reports and other printed matter, thc negatives of the publishcd series and corresponding lantem slide negatives and other miscellaneous property. The publishcd series refers to prints, mounted, unmounted and lantern slides accompanied by a booklet with extensivc captions and issued as First Series, First Issuc (A) in 1902. The cost was guaranteed by subscribers. It was very popular and

237 Plant fossils from the Keele Formation, central England descrivbed by Emily Dix (1935).

DrChristophcrJ. Cleal, Department ofBotany,National Muscum and Gallery of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff CFI 3NP, Wales, U.K., writes:

Plant macrofossils are extremely rare in the red beds of the uppermost Carboniferous of the English Midlands. Oneof themost widely quoted records is by Emily Dix

(1935, GeologicalMagazine 72,556) who lists species from the Keele Formation exposed at the Foleshill Brick and Tile CO Pit. Longford, near Coventry. The specimens werereportedlyobtained 'withtheassistance of Messers J.F. Cooper and F.W. Shotton'. The record is of particular interest as it includes the species Odontopteriscf. schlotheimiiBrongniartwhichstrongly indicates a late Stephanian age, a view which has become widely accepted in the literature (eg Wagner 1983, Scottish Journal of Geology 19, 152). There is, however, other evidence that these beds may be of earliest Stephanian (Cantabrian) in age and that Dix's identifications are wrong. Establishing which age determination is correct has imponant consequences for understanding the Variscan evolution of central England.

The problem is that none of the specimens has ever beenfigured and theirpresent whereabouts is unknown. I have checked the two main holdings of Dix's specimens, at the National Museum and Gallery of Wales and the Sedgwick Muscum, all to no avail. I would be very intcrested to know if these important specimens are still available for study, and also if thcre areany otherknown assemblages of plant macrofossils from the Keele or Enville Formations.

238. Bright, a Wenlock Limestone locality.

Matthew Parkes (Geological Survcy of Ireland, Beggar's Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4. Ireland) would appreciate any information on thc following:

A locality called Bright, either on the outcrop of lhc Wenlock Limestone o r else at about the same stratigraphical interval. The label would suggest it is probably in England or Wales, but it nccd not be.

239. Carboniferous Limestone fossils in Geological Survey of Ireland.

Matthew Parkes (Geological Sumey of Ireland, Beggar's Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland) would appreciate any information on provenance of thc following collection:

240. T h o m a s Owen Bosworth (1882-1928)

Dr James B. Richardson 111, Chairman, Division of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Edward O'Neil Research Centre, 5800 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15206-3706, U.S.A. [fax: 412-66527511 writes:

I am seeking information and archival material belonging to Dr. Thomas Owen Bosworth, the noted English geologist. Bosworth spent a time employed as a school teacher in Northampton before becoming a geologist with the Geological Survey in Scotland. He then worked for a petroleum company in northwestern Peru and later in Canada. He died at the early age of 46, in Spratton, leaving a widow and five children.

He was the author of Geology of the Tertiary and Quaternary Periods in the north-west part of Peru (Macmillan 1922).

My purpose is to dctcrmine if any of his unpublished papers, fieldnotes, photographs, or memorabilia from his years in thc oil ficlds of the Talara region of northwest Peru exist. 1 am an archaeologist who has worked in thc rcgion for 30 years.

A suite of Carboniferous limestone fossils in ihe GeologicalSurvey of Ireland collections have an unusual numberingsystem. Eachspecimenhas aprintcd number, usually of two digits, which are preceeded by a handwritten "58" in a distinctive red ink.

Scrutton,Colin.(ed.).1995.Northumbrion rocksandlandscape: afield guide. Yorkshire Geuloglcai St,rirty/l:llenb.~nk ~ r i s s , 216 pp. ISBN 1873551 11 X. I'upcrback. Price: 29-99,

Hot on the heels of Lakeland rocks and landscape and Yorkshire rocks and landscape, this third geological field guide, published by theYorkshireGeological Society, follows much thesameeasy- to-use format, and is a welcome addition to the series.

Editor, Colin Scmtton, goes to some pains in his Introduction to stress the importance of safety in the field and the need for conservation of sites, which is always a worry when publishing this type of information.

Following an introductory chapter on the geological history of Northumbria, theguide comprises seventeen field excursions, five intheborderregions, seven in Northumberland and five in County Durham. For me, fondmemories are evokedparticularly by those to Holy Island and Bamburgh (Bert Randall &John Senior), the Roman Wall (Mick Jones), WeardaleandNenthead [Brim Young), the Wear Valley (Tony Johnson) and Upper Teesdale (John Senior). Hundreds of Durham undergraduates will also have covered this ground and the authors write with the authority of these years of experience. A glossary, short bibliography and a useful list of Northumbrian geological museums camplctcs the text.

Each of the excursions follows a similar format and begins by explaining the purpose of the excursion, followed by remarks on logistics.Theseareparticularly uscfulandincludesuchinfomation as therecommendedsizeofpmies, distances covered and severity, permission, parking, refreshments, toilets, tides and other safety factors. This is followed in each case by a list of relevant maps (O.S. &B.G.S.), and brief remarks on the geological background.

Thencomes thcreal meatofthe guide, thecxcursion details, where each localitv. identified hv a 6-fieure crid reference. is described accurately, hut leaving interprctationlargely to theuscr. Jargon is usedonly whercabsolutelynecessary andis thenidcntified in bold type and defined in the glossary. Maps and sections areplentiful, clearly drawn and consistent in format, making the excursions details easy to follow. And it's not just of local interest; I have recently sent a copy of excursion 15 (Wear Vallcy) to a coral colleague in Queensland who informs me that thc baptismal font in Brisbane Cathedral is carved from Frosterley Marble!

The hook comes in pocket-size with a tough linen cover, ideal for field use and is not over priced at £9.99. Colin Scrutton is to be comnlimented for his cdilorshio of this volume which will brine " these vast and beautiful areas of England to a larger public. however templing it might be to keep thcm to ourselves!

JohnNudds, ManchesterMuselun, OxJordRoad, Manchester M13 9PL. U.K.

Toghill,Peter andBeale, Susan. 1994. ErcallQuarries, Wrekin area, Shropshire. Geology Teaching Trail. Geologists' Association Guide No. 48,21 pp. ISBN 0 900717 47 5. Price: £3-50.

Shropshire displays as rich a range of geological phenomena as any county inBritain, andover the years many guides topartor all of the county have been published. This new Guide is relatively modest inthe area that it covers and the scopc ofits subject, but it was written with a special purpose: subtitled "Geology Teaching Trail", i t was written in order ro descrihs a n m a n c n t neolonjcal "

trail set out in the Ercall Quarries and authorised by their owner now that thcquarries aredisused. Within a small area a variety of geological features are easily accessible and admirably cxpased, and thetrailisdescribed in such a wav as to eive ancasv half-day's study or a more advanced and extcnded one-day outing.

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The Guide takes you to localities in the Precambrian Uriconian Volcanic Group, associated with intrusive rocks, the Ercall Granophyre, and the unconformably overlying Wrekin Quartzite and Lower Comley Sandsmne, of early Cambrian age. It describes each locality briefly but clearly, with cross references to what is seen at other localities on the Trail and references to recent literature. "Additional Localities Nearby", described in brief on pages 18 and 19, extend the Trail to Tremadoc rocks with a l&prophyresill andLower Carboniferous sandstone and limestone with basalt lavas. A clear man and larce field sketches illustratine

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the geology are supplemented by attractive colour photographs on the front and back covers of the booklet that form an integral part of the Guide.

The booklet is well produced and printed, with ample useof hold- face type to help the user in the field to pick out the references to each locality; bold and italic type is used to emphasise safety and conservation aspects. A minor technical comment is that few would nowadays regard the problematical Moberello as a brachiopod (pp. 4, 13). Furthermore, the age of the base of the

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Cambrian (as recently defined by the world stratotype in Newfoundland)isnow more widelv accentedas about 545 Mathan the 570 Ma date mentioned an p. 3. Therefore the first line on p. 4 would read more correctly as "the local base of the Camhrian".

TheTrail is stated to be ideal for teaching geology at all levels, and indced, with demanstrablc faults, unconformities, sedimentary structures and contrasts bctwcen various rocktypes, there is much to sec. I suspect, however, that the relative beginner might find the language of the Guide, clear and well mitten though it is, a little too terse and technical; they would get more h-am the Trail if guidcd by amoreexperienced geologist - whn would, I am sure, be able to use the present Guide to very good effcct.

A.WA.Rushton.BritishGeologicalSurvey,Keywor~h.No[ringham NG12 SGG, U .K . I l lh October 1995.

Giles, J.K.A. (ed.) 1995. Geological Da ta Management. Geological Society Special Publiention 97, 185 pp. ISBN 1 897799 34 X. Hardback. Price: £55-00.

The management of large amounts of geological data calls for carcful consideration and planning prior to sctling up a digital databasc mmagement system.This, and advocating consistency in describing (and coding) d a b elements are the most important messages given in this book, resulting from two meetings (in 1992 and 1993) organized by the Geological Society's Geoscience Information Group.

The 19 chapters in the book arc divided into thrce broad scctions: L ) . I ~ ~ ~ ~ . I F L . c1csig11 ( X ) , d ~ l ~ l ~ ~ s i ~ . ~ : I I ~ ~ ~ C I I I L . I I ~ (7) ~ n ~ l 4 case studidi. 1'112 I ~ I ~ I I < ) ~ I ~ V c11 autt~or': arc from lhe I3riti.h C;et,ln~ic.rl Survc! . . - (BGS), or connected with consultancy and oil companies, and rather few are from academic institutions. As far as can be judged, museums curators are abscnl, which is strange considering the increascd use or digital management of museum collections.

The introductory chapter by thc editor, J.R.A. Giles outlines the contcnts of the volume, and presents six important points to be considered by adatamanager. These arc discussed in thc ensuring chapters, thus : -

-What objective will the database meet ?

-Why is a digital databasc bcing considered ?

-When, if ever, will tbc cost and effort of creating the database bc repaid ?

- How will the database be designed and created ?

- Where are the users ?

- Who will he responsible for maintaining the integrity of the that the catalogue has had to be typed, edited and produced database ? manually, rather than simply downloaded from a database.

Despite having different reasons and objectives for designing A concise introduction by the Keeper of Geology, Mike Bassett aeolo~ical databases, the authors arrive at the same conclusions outlines the oreanisation of the cataloeue which follows the 1972 - - with advice to database managers: original, and justly notes the publication also reflects continuing

effort to maintain andpromotecuratorialstandards. Thesheersize -Effort (time, labour andmoney) spenton thoroughmodelling and of the catalogue reflects the need for this supplement, which designing, prior to implementing expensive hard- and software.

dwarfs the 1972 edition. Although additional pre-1972 type pays back in the long run. material since identified is included, and there are older collections -Data dictionaries and data normalization (terms) should be used acquired from university departments, the vast majority is newly to leave as little ambiguity as possible. collectedand donated material. This partly reflects thevigorously

healthyresearchrelationship developed with the University College -Common software standards and dictionaries reduce the risk of Cardiff Geology Department. It also results from an active losing data, e.g. when transferring project data between systems. research programme within the - Metadata ("data about data") is one area of access for external There are 4 appendices. Within A canbe found the details of major users. collections acquired from individuals, institutions and thesis - Improve the status of the data manager (curator or collection collections, Appendix B is an alphabetic listing of all other manager) in order to re-use data already gathered and to maintain accessions than those in C, which were collected officially by its integrity. departmental staff. Appendix D is a phylum based list of all

primary types, a total of 121 species; and there are 10 pages of - Outdated data for One may represent for others; references. Perhaps the simplestportrayal of why the catalogue is data brokers may exchange such data. This is a reminder for the timely is Figure showing growth in collections, which distribution of non-commercial museum data. increased from about 100,000 specimens in 1968 to over 750,000 Computer jargon is often crowded with acronyms, but with few in 1994. exceptions, all those used in this book are well defined. One The main body of the catalogue is clearly organised and easy to notable exception is the "decoding" of SQL as "sequential query use, with good stratigraphical and locality information, and language" (instead of "structured query language") on page 123. remarks where appropriate previous, errors or The book contains a comprehensive index, where most terms and main between this and the 1972 edition is the key words can be found. Several well-known software products additionoffigures throughout he textillustrating theprimarytype and systems are discussed in the text, but for some reason, you would from the NMW Geology dBaseIV, Microsoft Access and the Petrotcchnical Open Software Department, the photographs are all POSC are not.

The catalogue is well produced, well illustrated and welcome. I The references are gcncrally wcll up-to-date including entries for have only two One is the price, which I is high 1994 and 1995. Otherwise. the subject is part of a fast evolving enough to deter some potential ~h~ second is that industry and yesterdays truths are necessary lhe same today' possibly thcusc of aslightly smaller font size would perhaps have Thus the price of hard disks (page 165% with reference to a 1990 reduced the number ofpages, and hence the cost, without being publication) is given to be USD 20 per Mb, but at the time of detrimental to the overall writing (January 1996). the "street price" is probably less than USDO.5OperMb.Theillustrationsallfollow thercquiredstandards Matthew Parks, Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars Bush, usedfor modelling relational databases. Exceptions, however, are Iladdington Road, Dublin 4 , Ireland. 6th March 1996. the poor "black text on black background" reproductions on pages 167 and 171.

Herries Davies, G.L. 1995. North from fhe Hook: 150 years of Although museum case studies are lacking in this book, it should

fheGeo~ogiealSurveyofIre~nd~ Geological Survey ofIreland, still be read by museum staffprior to designing and implementing

Dublin, pp. xi + 342. ISBN 1 899702 00 8. Prlce IRf35-00 a computer based collection management. The often tedious work (available from the Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggar's of modelling and designing instead of trying superficial ad hoc I,us,,, Haddington Road, Dubl in 4). methods will he wcll rewarded when structured informalion is searched for and successfully retrieved

Ham Arne Nakrem, Palaeonrological Museum, University of Oslo, Sars gr. I , N-0562 Oslo. Norway. 1st February 1996.

Owens, R.M. and Bassett, M.G. 1995. Cafalogue of the Type, Figured and Cited fossils in the National Museum of Wales: Supplement1971 -1994,250pp. NutionalMuseum and Galleries of Wales, Geological Series No. 12, Cardiff. ISI1N 0 7200 0422 5. Softback. Price £34-50.

This A4 softback book is a substantial publication, of 250 pages, reflecting a very large amount of work, both by the Catalogue authors and by the workers whoscmatcrial is now deposited in the National Museum of Wales Geology Department, and forms the raison dice for this supplement. It also reflects a significant curatorialinputby severalNMW staff, whoareduly acknowledged. Having worked, albeitbriefly, in thcGeology Department, Iknow

Croke, F. (ed.). 1995. George Vicfor Du Noyer 1817-1869: hidden landscapes. The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, pp. 88. ISBN 0903 162717. Price: IRf7-00 (available from the National Gallery of Ireland, Merrlon Square, Dublin 2).

1995 was markcd by celebration inIrish geological circles for the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Geological Survey of Ircland and the Queen's Collcges of Cork (now University College Cork), Galway (also now titled University College) and Belfast.

The Geological Survey ofIreland markcd its sesquicentenary in a number of ways, but mast notably through its publication of a history by Cordon Herries Davies, and its association with an exhibitionof watercolours by C.V. DuNoyer (1817-1869). oneof its finest geologists, held in theNdtional Galleryof Ireland during June through August.

Norlh from the Ilook, Herries Davics' comprehensive history of the Geological Survey tells the often troubled, turbulent and

triumphant events surrounding the mapping of Ireland's rocks from 1845 until the present today. Physically the book is large: in an A4fomat. hutyet is easy, and pleasing to handle. It is liberally illustrated with 15 colour plates and over 100 half-tones.

In 1824 the Ordnance Survey under Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Colhy (1784-1852) began to survey the country and produced the first large scale topographical maps of the country. The Ordnance Survey published one parish report in 1837 and six years later Joseph Ellison Portlock's bulky memoir on the geology of Londonderry, and of parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh. Two years later in 1845 the Geological Survey was established under the Directorship of Thomas de la Beche and the Local Directorship of Henry James. For the next forty five years the officers of the Geological Survey in Ireland were engaged in producing a geological map of the country. The first maps they published depicted the geology of various counties at a scale of one inch to two miles; subsequently from 1856 maps were published at the preferred scale of one inch to one mile. The Geological Survey producedtotal of205 suchmapsheets with accompanying memoirs before theirtask wascompleted.Theimportanceof theGeological Survey to Irish geology at this time cannot be overstated. It employedinmen such as Edward Hull (1829.1917). Joseph Reete Jukes (181 1-1869). George Henry Kinahan (1829-1908), George Victor du Noyer (1817-1869) and Thomas Oldham some of the most eminent geologists to work in Ircland. Under Jukes an ambitious regime of field mapping bcgan that resulted in an average of about 1,000 square miles geologically surveyed per year between 1850 and 1870. However, the mapping programme didnot always proceed smoothly: Edward Hull's interpretation of some of the geology of southern Ircland was questioned by his officers, and he fell our with some of them, parLicularly with Kinahan. The conditions endured by the geologists were not always pleasant; in some cases the adverse conditions led to a breakdown in health. Of thc thirty two geologists cmploycd between 1845 and 1890 seven died.

After 1890 when the the final map in the Geological Survey's mammoth series of one inch to one mile maps, was published, the Survey's staff was drastically reduced. In the ncxt three decades some important work, particularly in the area of glacial geology, wascarriedoutundcr theleadership ofGeorgeWilliam Lamplugh (1859-1926) who took charge from 1901 until 1905. In addition memoirs relating to some of Ireland's economic deposits were published in the first two decadcs of this century.

Since the early 1960s the state of Irish geology and thc health of theGeologicalSu~ey ofIrelandimproved enormously. This was largely due to the discovery of basemetals and hydrocarbons inor around Ireland. In 1960 the Government passed the Petrolcum and Other Minerals Development Bill which allowed for the exploration of parts of Ireland and its surrounding continental shelf, and in in 1963 a major base mctal deposit was locatcd in County Galway. The Geological Survey was consequently upgraded and took on increased numbers of staff, who wcrc able to service andencourage such economic dcvelopments. In thclast five years the Geological Survey of Ireland h3; commenced ~uhlication of a series of geological maps ot the country at the scale of 1:100,000.

Gordon Herries Davics' hook is a wonderful exposition and illustration of cartographic and institutional history. Often such tomes are dry and crusty - North from the iIook is full of flavour, and a joy read from start to finish. I will, no doubt, dip into, or rereaditmany times again. It is warmly andstronglyrecommcnded to all interested in thehistory and socialbackground ofgovernment geologisls.

George Victor Dv Noyer 1817-1869: hidden landscapes, a slim, beautifully illustrated, book was published by theNational Gallery of Ireland to accompany the exhibition of Du Noyer watercolours. Itcontainssix essaysthatfocusonthelifeof theartist andhismany interests: antiquities, geology, zoology and botany which are reflected in his paintings. Gordon Herries Davies pens a portrait of Du Noyer while Pelra Coffey discusses his observations made on Irish life and people. Jean Archer describes Du Noyer's geological illustrations which range in size from tiny sketches made on the corners or reverse of his field sheets to larger watercolours. Nigel Monaghan shows how Du Noyer was equally athome producing lithographs forthe palaeontologicalmonographs of Portlock and M'Coy.

Struck down with scarlet fever at arelatively early age. Du Noyer has left behind arich legacy of printed and painted works which until recently was hardly known or appreciated. Through the efforts of Jean Archer and others Du Noyer's talents arenow more widely recognised. This volume does them justice; the editor and contributing authors deserve congratulations for this fine production.

PatrickN. WyseJackson, DeparlmntofGeology, Trinity College, Dublin2. 3rdApril1996.

GEOLOGICAL CURATORS' GROUP

21st Annual General Meeting

30th November 1994 at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

1. Apologies for absence Received from Diana Hawkes, Mick Stanley, John Cooper, Tristam Besterman, SimonKnel1,Roy Clements, Rosemary Roden, SteveMcLean, Stuart Ogilvy, and S teveThompson.

2. Minutes of the 20th Annual General Meeting 1993 The minutes were approved as a true record of the meeting; proposed by Gill Weightman, seconded by Tom Sharpe.

3. Matters arising There were none.

4. Chairman's Report from Paul Ensom The year of 1994 has been a milestone for the Group, celebrating the 20th Anniversary of its formation backin the 1974. That was a timeof many causes to fight for, and a very different museum culture to the one in which most of us operatetoday. Theinterveningyears haveseengreatchanges, many of apositivenature, thoughas JohnMartinsummed up in his report of the Northampton Meeting in Coprolile, 'we still have as big a fight now as we ever had'. We must be as vigilant now as were those who set the Group on its course 20 years ago, ensuring that the geological collections for which we care, directly or indirectly, are not squandered by a headlong rush to embrace the market-place economy in museums. Peter Crowther in his penultimate editorial (The Geological Curalor, 5, (8). p.302) writes of the conflicts which exist and which ultimately 'rule our professional lives'. For better or for worse we have to respond to changc and with these conflicts in mind we look forward to the International Conference on the Value and Valuation of Natural Science Collections to be held in Manchester in April 1995. GCG is a sponsor of the meeting and has agreed to provide financial assistance fora limited number of places (see Coprolite No 15, p.6).

For the present I return to thc past. For the celebratory Northampton meeting I would like to pay special thanks to Simon Knell who undertook the onerous task of arranging both themeeting and thevery successful Anniversary Dinner where we were pleascd to see many senlor members of the profession alongside those just setting out. It was a great pleasure to wclcome Hugh Torrens as our guest and after dinner speaker - a task which he accomplished with grcat panache. There was a call for similar events in the future, to which your committee will give due consideration. Sterling support was given by Dr Diana Sutherland who led the ficld trip the following day. WC were hosted in style by the Northampton Museum and thanks to Sheila Stone and her

staff for that. The venue was of course most apposite - the NorthamptonMuseum had afterall beenasignificantcatalyst in the chain of events which saw the birth of our Group. The Group was pleased to see that real progress was being made on theuimportantgeologicalcollections thanks to thepositive attitude of the museum's management, the dedication of members of their staff and Rosemary Roden.

The day was the more memorable for the launch of the Group'slatestpublication, theDirectoryofBritishGeological Museums (Geological Society Miscellaneous Publica~ion No.l8), compiled and edited by John Nudds and published by the Geological Society Publishing House. John Cooper and Nigel Cunningham should also be thanked for their involvement in its production.

Collections without 'keepers' have continued to concern the Group,and hereIpay LributetoSimonTimberlakeandSteve Thompson who were closely involved with the 'Orphan Collections' seminar in Brighton. The Museums Association must also be thanked for their enlightened approach to the hosting of meetings like this. This theme is one which we hope will find further expression at the Manchester symposium next April while in the meantime continuing to tax members of the committee.

I am of coursc especially pleased that we have (or certainly should have) received 4 parts of The Geological Curator since the last AGM. My thanks go to Peter Crowther for seeing the last two parts of Volume 5 through, to Monica Price who has dealt with the page make-up, to Cath Bates who saw to their printing and to John Martin and his team at Leicester who have dispatched them to us for the last 10 years. (Peter acknowledges all those involved in his last editorial, The Geological Curalor, 5, pt.9). At the Glasgow AGM Patrick Wyse Jackson was elected Editor and we are delighted to see Volume 6, parts 1 and 2 issued already. I hope thatyouwill all keep your earsandeyesopen, watching for potential contributions and channelling them to our new Editor.

Thc publication of the new edition of Thumbs Up and the successful distribution of thousands of copies to museums aroundthecountry was theresultofagreatdealofhardwork by Colin Reid, and a most efrcctive distribution system through our Secretary and Manchester University. The costs involved were generously met by British Gas Exploration and Production, The Curry Fund of the Geologists' Association, Rockwatch and the Geological Society. Our intention is to reprint this popular and importantleafletin the new year taking, account of the new telephone codes and incorporating any necessary revisions.

During the year, and at remarkably short notice, the Committee responded to the call for comments by the DNH

on their Policy for Museums and Galleries. We hope that the review they are undertaking will see the development of a morerational andsupportiveapproach to museumsby Central Government.

The aim to hold a meeting at the Seckenberg has lapsed - at least for the time being. There is still a desire by Committee to follow the road to Europe and the right opportunity is being watched for. Thecommittee would like to thank John Cooperwhoseideait originally was,and for his efforts toget it off the ground.

At the beginning of the year the Committee invited Dr Bob Symestojoin themas aco-optedmemberand weredelighted when he accepted. During the year Rosina Down who had been BCGrepresentative for at least the last 10 years handed overto SteveThompson. Wethank her for her loyal support and regular attendanceduring that time. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Officers, who will be reporting to you in their own right, and Committee mcmbcrs for their support and hard work. TheGroup as a whole owes much to Tom Sharpe and Monica Price who continue to see that we are supplied with a wide variety of information through Coprolite. Thanks to all those who contribute voluntarily or have their arms twisted! The Terminology WorkingParty undertheleadershipofRoy Clementsconlinue todeliberateand welook forward to their first offering. Kate Pontin has remained in her role as corresponding educationalistand hasbccnagreathelp wilh themachinations over the National Curriculum. The Group is fortunate to have seen its last Chairman, John Cooper, invited to join the UK Systematics Forum. His presence will doubtless be of value.

Personal thanks go to Di Hawkes for all her hard work as Minutes Secretary for well over ten years.

The time has come in my chairmanship (The Geological Curator, 5 , (B), pp. 331-332) to invite 'informal suggcsLions (with supporting written statement) for possible [ A G Brighton] medalists' to be sent dircct to me. You will, I am sure, remember that the award is made on the basis of the 'counselled choice of the Chairman'. This appeal is Lhc start of the selection procedure which culminaLes in thc presentation of the Medal at next years AGM.

Finally, on behalf of the Group I would like to thank all our speakers, leaders, and hosting organisations who through their co-operation and contributions have made the last year such a good one.

5. Secretary's Report from Mandy Edwards The Committee have met four times in 1994: 13th January, London; 16th May Leicestcr; 28th September, Manchester and 29thNovembe1, Cardiff. Theethics of collecting and the useofcollections havebeen discussedby committeein 1994 and wearelookingforward toaculminationof thesethoughts at the Value and Valuation Meeting in Manchester in April 1995.

The group still has two working partics in opcration - on

terminology and uncurated collections. The terminology working party have met once this year and have identified some initial targets and have some documents in draft form. We wait to hear from the working party on uncurated collections who will have reported to committee yesterday!

Three seminars were held: The very enjoyable 20th Anniversary meeting in Northampton on 17th May. Thank you to Simon Knell as local secretary and everyone at Northampton. Ameetinghostedby theMuseums Association Conference in Brighton on 12th September on Orphan Collections organised by Simon Timberlake and Steve Thompson. And finally the meeting today in Cardiff on Geological Display -new directions in intcrpretation.Thank you to Tom Sharpe as local organiser. The meeting on University Collections had to he cancelled at short notice due to local circumstances. Thank you to all of Lhe people who have helped in the organisation of meetings.

Sue Rainton has been requesting material all year from committee members for the groups archive which is now steadily growing. If anyone has anything for inclusion in the archive please see one of the committee members.

The publicity leaflet and the new edition of Thumbs Up have generated a lot of interest. Thegroup have sent out replies to 64 pcople. Stcve Mclcan has very generously been hclping scnd out membership packs to pcople. The group is still recciving rcqucsts forcopies of Thumbs Up from all over the world.

I have taken over the organising of the seminar programme from Colin Reid and it has been a lot harder to do than Colin makesitlook. However wehavc4 mcetingsand2 workshops planned for 1995 -delails to follow in the new year. Anyone who has any ideas for mcclings or offers of venues please let mc know.

The Group have agrecd to assist up to 5 pcople to attend the conference next year on the Value and Valuation of Collccdons . Please sec mc if you do want help in attending this confcrcncc.

6 . Treasurer's Report from Andrew Newman

Finance Thc accounts for Lhe period 8112193-30111194 are attached. TheGcological Curators'Group has total assets of £ 12,737.37. Income over the past year has been made up mainly of subscriptions and sponsorship. I wish to record my thanks to the membership for gcncrally promptpayment and to our sponsors CJC Burhouse, British Gas and The Geological Society for their hclp with particular projects. Expcnditure has been in excess ofprcvious ycars hccause of the publication of thrcenumbers ofThe Geological Curaror and thc dccision to scnd Coprolire to all subscribcrs. The Group has been more active over the last year, publishing and distributing leaflets, for example. There was also a cost associated with the20th anniversary mccting atNorthampton. The netresult of the extra activity is that the Group has a dcficit over the year of £2765.12. This situation is clcarly untenable in the

medium term so I propose to increase subscriptions by of the Brighton Medal to Charles Waterston, Reviews of 3 £3.00. This will mean that for 1995 onwards subscriptions books,andLoslandFound. Part2conlains6papersfrom the will be as follows: Personal UK: £10; Institutions UK: £13; 1992 Museums and Fossil Excavation meeting (these were Personal Overseas £12; Institutions Overseas: £15. This editedinconjunctionwilh SimonKnell,oneotherpaper,one increasewillcovertheprojectedcostsfor 1995. Thesituation note, the firstFactFile,reviews of 12 books, LostandFound, will remain under review. and the correct accounts for 1992!

Membership Group nlembership has benefited considerably from the publicity leaflet. The total membership comprises of:

UK personal members 291 Overseas personal 55 UK institutions 102 Overseas institutions 59

Total subscriptionsof 507. This represents an increase of 38 during the year. I would like to thank Steve Mclean for his help in dealing with enquiries generated by the leaflet.

There was a query as to how much deficit was due to lheThe Geological Curator. TheTreasurer stated that i t was a major factor, and that we could be in the red in the next two and a half years if we did not raise subscriptions. We now need more income as the group is more active with publications. Subscriptions have not gone up since 1989. Paul Ensom agreed that it was not unreasonable to increase the price oE subscriptions as we do lag behind in the prices of the other specialist groups. The intention to mail out abstracts from the Value and Valuation conference in Manchester would take a large proportion of the funds.

The accounts were adopted by thc meeting.

7. Editor's Report from Patrick Wyse Jackson A weekafter agreeing to be youreditor itbegan to sink injust how much work lav in the futurc. Mv oredecessor Petcr , . Crowther pulled the Curaror up by its boot strings and left behind a high quality journal, and he deserves thc grateful appreciation and thanks of the Group for his long term and hard work as Editor.

I havemadeanumber of modifications to his formula, which I believe improve thejournal further. For example abstracts are now published with all major articles. I have auempted toincrease thenumbcrofbookreviews withoutadding to the length of the journal by reducing thc font size.

This year has seen the publication of 4 issues of The Geological Curafor: Volume 5, Parts 8 and 9 and Volumc 6, Parts 1 and2. TheissuesofVolume5 wcretheresponsibility of my predecessor PeLcr Crowther, while I have been responsible for the issues of Volume 6.

Volume 6 Part 1 pp 1-45; published 22nd April 1994; Volnme6Part2,pp46-113;published 8th November 1994.

Part 1 contains a thematic set of 4 papers from the 1992 Symposium for Palaeonlological Preparators and Conservators, one other paper, 2 notes, thc minutcs of the 18th and 19th Annual General Meetings, notice of the award

I thank all those who submitted papers, those who reviewed booksand in particular those who refereed submittedpapers. Issues are now completely produced in Dublin. Typesetting is doneby me using lhe template producedby MonicaPrice. My wifevanessaproof-read both issues, which wereprinted by ColourBooksLtdof Dublin. The printers are quick(three weeks from submission of CRC to delivery of finished journal) and very helpful. The quality of the illustrations is for the most part excellent. A small number of less than perfect illustrations appeared (particularly in 6(2)), which were reproductions from colour transparencies. If authors require good quality illustrations they must submit them as good black and white prints. All the packing was done by Charlotte Ni Bhroin in TCD. Many thanks.

At present I have three manuscripts in hand which havebeen accepted for publication, and another two which were submitted some time ago and which were returned to the authors for revision.

The Geological Curalor can publish upwards of 12 papers per year, where the papers are 8-10 printed pages long. While I would encourage the submission of these shorter papers I donotpreclude publishing longersubmissions. I am notkeen topublishprcliminary papersnor working documents for consideration by the membership. Turnover rate of papers can be as fast as two months depending on when the papers are submitted and the amount of revision required. Please submit papers!

8. Recorder's Report from John Nudds This year has finally seen the publication of the long awaited GCG Direclory of Brifish Geological Museums, published by theGeological Society of Londonas MiscellancousPaper No.18. The Directory was launched on May 17th at the 20th anniversary meeting of the Group at Northampton Museum and thanks must go to Mike Collins of the Geological Socicty Publishing Housein Bath forsucceedingindelivering thc first 20copies literally hot from Lhc press toNorthampton for thatmemombleoccasion. Imuslalsoexpress my gratitude to Mikeand to John Cooper, whosebrainchild thisDirecfory was, for their joint efforts in steering theDirecrory through its final publication stages so quickly and so efficiently - after exhaustive chccking I can find only four errors, all of them trivial. Thanks are also due to all the contributors without whom there would have been nc oublication.

The Directory has been well publicised by the Geological Society and hasbecn vcry wellreccived with complimentary reviews appearing in New Scienrist (Doug Palmer), UK Journal of Mines & Minerals (Dave Green), Palaeontology Newsleffer (Barrie Rickards) and several otherjoumnls. The Geological Society appears pleased with its sales and I am

hopeful that we will produce updated editions. Copies are available today at the reduced price to GCG members of £9.95.

This year has also seen the preliminary preparation for a major international conference being organised jointly by the GCG, BCG and Manchester Museum on the Value and Valuation of Natural Science Collections, to be held at Manchester University from April 19th-21st 1995. This

Centres for the Annual Report. Some cenwes are very active with RIGS (Regionally Important Geological Sites) involvement,othetsnoso, butRIGS generally hasgalvanised many into action. 15 organisations, mainly Record Centres, have GD2 installed and working and hopefully more will follow.

Paul Ensom stated that the role of the NSGSD will be reviewed next year.

conferencewill examine the scientific, cultural and financial valueofcollectionsandhasalready receivedresponses from 11. Election of Officers and committee over 100 delegates representing over 20 different countries. John Crossling was proposed as Minutes Secretary, Keynote papers will be given by the Earl of Cranbrook, Bob Symes was elected to the committee, Professors Garv Carneeie and Peter Wolmizer (Deakin University, Victoria, Australia) and Charles Pettitt (Manchester Museum. The deadline for registration at reducedfees (£100) is 16th December 1994, although GCG members can register up to 19th March 1995 at a special rate off90. In addition theGCG committee is offering 5 assisted places to members; anyone who feels that they have a deserving case should apply in writing to the committee as soon as possible. The deadline for rcceipt of abstracts has now passedand theprovisional programme will be published in the next edition of Geoscientist; members will note that geology is well represented in this programme and the confercncepromises to heof relevanceto all concemcd with collections of natural scicnccs. Scvcral interesting social events are also planned.

12. Election of Auditors The re-election of Ken Scdrnan and Pmer Davies as auditors was proposed by John Martin, seconded by John Nudds and approved.

13. Any other business There was a query about whether theGroup intended to have a meeting further afield abroad in the future. Paul Ensom replied that this was what the GCG hoped to do.

14. Date and venue of next AGM 29th November 1995 at the Ludlow Museum.

The Chairman Paul Ensom proposed a vote of thanks to the 9. Officer" from "lin Reid hosts at the National Muscum of Wales for such a good Colin thanked Mandy Edwards for taking over the seminar m~ting,and,inparticularto~om~ha~eandCindy Howells programme which he had previously organised. who had hclpcdwith the arrangements

Thenew GCG leaflet appeared to bea success and Colin has now distributed 70,000 including through the Geological Society and the Museums Journal, there has been a good international response. Thc 'Thumbs Up' leaflet had to be redraftedcompletely; a limited print-run of ncw lcaflets was done because of the changes in telephone numbers in April 1995 and unawareness of parallel use of old and new numbers. A second run of leaflets will be done after April and sponsorship will bc rcquircd for this.

Colin expressed concern over thc lack of GCG response at special events such as at the Geological Society or thc Geologists' Association Reunion and stated we need more presence. Bob Symes said that we had had a postcr at the Reunion and that the GCG had taken part in the Fossil Day in Dudley.

10. National Scheme for Geological Site Documentation Coordinator's Report from Mick Stanley Mick had hoped toreport that after 14 years of hcing thc coordinator he would be able to give up but he was willing to continue for the time hcing. There had been one meeting of the ad-hoc Steering Group earlier this year and one due next week at Petcrborough, therefore more to rcport after this meeting. Mickwillbe seeking information back from Record

Annual Accounts 1994 (8 December 1993 - 30 November 1994)

Current Account Income Subscriptions Sale of backnumbers AdvertisementsISponsorship Meetings fees Committee lunch Transfer Refund bank charge Sec. Exp. not cashed MA refund Balance

Premier Interest Account Income Interest 491.24 705.81 Transfer 116.00 Balance 14523.81 13702.00

£15015.05 £14523.81

A.G. Brighton Funds in Premier Interest Account Income (interest) 53.00

Current Account Expenditure Geological Curator

Printing - 5(8), 5(9), 6(1) Postage

Meetings Committee Univ Manc Geol. Soc. Tea MGC General

Coprolite Print and disuibute

Brighton Medal Engrave

Other expenditure Postage MGC Univ. Soulh County Comp. Supplies Archive HPL4 Toner Cartridge

Publicity Leaflet Slide Pholo Design Prinl Pos1 Dist. Reingold Dist. Geol. Soc.

Trans. Balance

Premier Interest Account Expenditure Transfer to currcnL account 3100.00 Balance 11915.05 14523.81

Balance

Total Income 6808.52 3752.91 Total Expenditure 9573.64 3337.14

[signed] A. Newman GCG Treasurer [signcd] P.S. Davis and K. Sedman Auditors

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